Your club and your brothers are your life. - Damage

Damage's club has had an offer it can't refuse, to patch over to join The Brethren.

But what does this mean for Damage and his brothers?

What choices will they have to make?

What history might it reawaken?

And why is The Brethren making this offer?

Loyalty to his club and his brothers has been Damage's life and route to wealth, but what happens when business becomes serious and brother starts killing brother?

'Kickass' – Ed Winterhalder.
'Shakespearian' - Vulpes Libris

The Brethren Outlaw Motorcycle Club Crime Thriller Series volume 1

The Brethren MC trilogy are a series of hard nosed crime thrillers set in the world of UK outlaw bikers and biker gangs (a world most familiar from the American TV series Gangland, and Sons of Anarchy).

Under development for TV Heavy Duty People is one of those thrillers under $3 on Kindle that is going to make any crime thrillers 100 must read list once it hits the screen.

Author interview

Q When and why did you start on the path to become an author?

New Year's Day 1994, recovering from a mammoth hangover at a friend's hut in a village half way up Kilimanjaro by reading Iain Bank's Complicity at one sitting and thinking, so how do you start creating a plot like that? It's been downhill, literally, from there.

Q Who are your two most favourite authors? And why?

The two that really inspired me to pick up a pen and have a go. Iain Banks as above, and John LeCarré for the way he created an absorbing atmosphere in the Smiley series.

Q Do you read books that are the same genre as your work?

I'm best known for my biker books series.

I'd read Hells Angels Hunter S Thompson's seminal work as a teenager which fascinated me and I'd then read anything else I could find on outlaw bikers and bike gangs and the idea of writing something that took the culture seriously had been on my mind for years before I picked up a pen, back in those days before Sons of Anarchy splashed SAMCRO across the world's screens.

After Sonny Barger published his autobiography there seems to have been an increasing flow of outlaw motorcycle club based books and so I read a lot of factual, very much 'so called' in some cases, books about biker culture particularly but I tend not to read much biker fiction as given my magpie mind I'd just end up stealing bits that I wanted to use in my own books.

I also read a lot of true crime and books on British gangland by way of research.

Q Who do you write for? The audience or yourself?

Being honest, myself in the first instance as my books are things I just need to get out. But then the pleasure of messing with reader's minds I suppose is also quite a selfish one.

Q Are you totally separated from your characters or is there a bit of you inside?

There's a core or nugget of autobiography in all my books to a greater or sometimes much lesser extent. There has to be for me to be able to write myself into the characters and understand the logic of the choices they make.

Q What's your technique? Plan it out or make it up as you go?

A mix. I tend I have a theme or an idea, which becomes a bit of an outline that becomes a stronger skeleton as I go, but the characters always have a way of revealing hidden twists and motivations as they get involved.

There was never actually meant to be a Brethren outlaw motorcycle club crime thriller series. The first book, Heavy Duty People, was a standalone exploring how and why a character might end up as what they were and what might be involved in becoming a gangster. The second book, Heavy Duty Attitude, just happened when two of the characters met up in my head about 1 months later and then they were off, I was just along for the ride, and it's gone on from there.

Q Tell us a secret…what's your guilty pleasure?

I murdered my ex-boss – I had him garrotted in one of my books. That was very satisfying