THE NEW BEGINNING

About the Book

This book starts on a cold, wet, winters afternoon in London when the main character in the story goes home from work early because he is not feeling well, possibly the start of the usual winter flu. By late evening he has a raging temperature and is vomiting continuously, if he had not felt so bad and had any strength in his limbs he would have made his way to the hospital. When he eventually wakes up he finds that his apartment is freezing cold and the central heating is not on, when he gets himself together sufficiently and finds the strength required to go outside he finds dead bodies lying on the street, vehicles are crashed all over the place with dead bodies in some of them and there is no one about anywhere, he goes back inside badly shocked and tries the telephone but it is not working and his mobile gets no answers no matter who he rings including the Police and everywhere there is a complete silence like nothing he has ever experienced before.

About the Author

Born in the Republic of Ireland in 1941, moved to Northern Ireland as a child. Left Secondary School after grade 12 and had a couple of clerical jobs, Joined the Northern Ireland Police Force, The Royal Ulster Constabulary at the age of eighteen and served during a period of the I.R.A. troubles and resigned after four years and married his present wife, has two sons. After leaving the police force he pursued a career in the field of selling which he successfully pursued until 1981 when he and his family immigrated to Australia and settled in Townsville North Queensland where the whole family became Australian Citizens in 1986. Since then he has continued his career in the sales field in the telecommunications industry until 2009 when he retired and started writing. That had always been an ambition to take up seriously. This is his fourth book that he has written and is on a subject that he has always felt deeply about most of his adult life, with the sequel still to be published.