Gate of Tears is Here

I was finishing the last chapters of my thriller  'Gate of Tears' in March this year, in an apartment in Malta, overlooking the sea. British Tornadoes were flying on their way to and from bombing missions in LIbya, and I could see warships and ferries bringing refugees from Libya into Malta (just a couple of hundred miles away). The main political and superpower action in 'Gate of Tears' takes place a few years hence, in the Red Sea, where the strategic oil chokepoint - the Strait known as Gate of Tears (Bab el Mandeb in Arabic) is just twenty miles wide.

Other action sequences are set in the Yemen, and Djibouti, which border the Strait, and extrapolate the rapid growth of China as a superpower, with its 'Golden Shield' intelligence gathering operation around the world and on the internet.

It has been a fascinating exercise, and I was even able to bring in details of the death of Osama bin Laden, before my publisher got it into print in June.

With strong characters established, I have another three books lined up and under way, and I hope to learn a lot here about the marketing process.

Coming soon on Kindle too!