Only the Gods Decide

About the Book

Frank Blake's life is changed forever the day his wife leaves him after twenty-three years of marriage. His divorce is the catalyst that starts a new chapter in his life. The saying "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans" rings true to Frank as his everyday life and values begin to be destroyed by savage and unexpected events. Hitching a lift in a plane borrowed from a film crew, Frank and his two female companion's crash land in valley in a Brazilian jungle. They discover great wealth in a strange Pyramid and eventually manage to make their way back to civilisation. The subsequent international news coverage attracts the unwelcome attention of dangerous rogue Irish Republicans and the CIA. The Republicans try to kidnap Frank for ransom and during the subsequent fight Frank kills one of them and badly wounds the other. The Republicans continue to try to capture him with ever increasing determination. At each attempt more of them die as Frank desperately tries to evade their capture. With the help of strange forces Frank escapes their clutches several times but not without high cost as friends and loved ones die around him. Frank turns and starts to fight back with anger and deadly revenge using skills taught to him many years ago. His enemies begin to die and Frank is no longer the man he once was.

About the Author

I was born in the country close to a small village in Surrey, England in 1939. My parents were quite poor compared to today's standards; even so they gave me a wonderful childhood for which I will be forever grateful. Leaving school at fifteen with little or no qualifications I started a five-year apprenticeship as an engineer at the end of which I was promptly called up for my National Service in the Royal Air Force. I married in 1963 and am blessed with a son and a daughter who both have families of their own now and who have made me a grandfather several times over. I have built two businesses from scratch the first of which was in 1974 when I was thirty-five and the last one I sold in 2004. I am now theoretically retired although I have recently started another company selling powerboats just for fun and the challenge. My recreational sports have consisted of playing village football and cricket in my teens and early twenties, squash, violently, in my thirties, and offshore powerboat racing in my forties and early fifties during which time I grew to love and respect the sea. Today I have slowed down a little and find great pleasure in walking, reading, eating out in local pubs, the occasional game of golf and of course messing about with boats. I also enjoy writing and am well into my second novel. I now live in deepest Sussex, England, fairly close to the sea.