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Message from the Author

My first novel “Danny Mason” is currently available for purchase direct from this website and in all good bookshops, my second “Jack Clay” is soon to be released with my third “Jack Clay” 2 “the rise” sometime in the summer of this year!

I am still working as a contracts manager in the construction industry but hope to retire soon to become a full-time author, time will tell of course but hopefully people will love my characters and stories enough to make that happen, either way I will continue to write in the hope that it brings joy, a sense of fantasy and escapism to those that need it.

(Pre-Order Now)

Born into poverty to two hapless and criminal parents, Witness to his mothers brutal murder at the hands of his psychotic father aged just eight, brutalised by his maternal grandmother while in her care and subsequently placed in a children’s home for his own safety, what chance did Danny ever have to lead a normal life?, the answer was simple really, slim to nothing.

His entire family including their friends and associates were criminals and rogues of one kind or another, especially his uncles Harry and Jimmy, the notorious Parkhurst twins who ruled south London with extreme violence and menace, they had come calling at the recommendation of the north London gangster Tommy Spillane, who had struck up a friendship with Danny while serving his own prison sentence alongside Danny at Maidstone jail.

Jack Clay

(Coming Soon)

Jack Clay was going nowhere,

Regularly in and out of prison for criminality and extreme violence, it was only a matter of time before Jack ended up with a huge prison sentence, or worse. Jack had always found it hard to control his temper, ever since his doting father Douglas Clay had been murdered by a local gypsy family who had beaten him to death and dumped his lifeless body on the street for the crows to pick at. His mother, the now widowed Pearl Clay was left to fend for herself and little Jack, she did her best of course but when Richie Powers, a local north London gangster had come along in 1979 she took up with him and saw it as a way to protect herself and her young boy who was only nine at the time, however he was a brute of a man who cared for no one but himself, he regularly beat Jack and his mother for the slightest indiscretion or “back chat”, Jack hated him and was simply waiting for his chance, that day came one evening when Ritchie Powers had arrived home drunk as usual and set about Pearl for not having his dinner ready, during the Mellay that ensued Jack bludgeoned his mother’s boyfriend to death with a marble ashtray, he was fifteen.the time