Flight of a Habit

About the Book

The tale is told by Cris, and ex public school boy , with inherited money, recently thrown out of the Army having had a spell in detention for selling MOD property. He meets Colleen, a prostitute, only in the game to improve her prospects by making quick money. She is of Irish/Colombian extraction with family still living in Colombia.

The two of them decide to visit Colombia and Colleen's family, where they are welcomed. While on an expedition in the jungle they are kidnapped by guerrillas and discover that the Colombian family are in the cocaine exporting business.

Looking for more adventure, they decide to try their hand at smuggling cocaine into England. The story unfolds as they plan and execute the operation through Portugal, Spain, France, and finally into england where it reaches a dramatic conclusion in the Devon countryside.

This is an amusingly written story, using the serious subject of drugs in a light hearted vein, it does contain some more adult passages, but is very light reading.

About the Author

David Barrow was born in Surrey in 1935. During the war years the family evacuated to Scotland and back to Sussex. School at Rannoch in Scotland / Broadstairs in Kent. His education was completed at Charterhouse in Surrey. Two years National Service was done in the Royal Navy, getting a commission as a Midshipman serving mostly in minesweepers. During this time he was selected to represent the navy at swimming. Agriculture was always his ambition and on being "demobed" he completed a two-year course in agriculture at Cirencester, Glos. After 9 years of farm management he and his wife acquired a farm in Dorset. Thirty years on, the farm was sold and they moved to East Devon into "semi-retirement" running a successful tree nursery business. A succession of hip replacements forced a second retirement and the writing of this first novel. They have been married for 48 years, have 3 children and 6 grandchildren.