Ummm…About me?

Just a bloke who really did get a bang on the head in a far away land. 

Two weeks in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, a laptop (with no wireless connection) and boredom.

Between visits from the Neuro people, family and even some friends I decided to write a book. But what about? 

Well, I could clearly remember a conversation I’d had that morning two weeks before when I had remarked to a number of colleagues that ‘…if you wanted it easy, you should have joined the fukkin’ Navy’. It seemed a good place to start and as we all know, the Navy leads the ‘life of Reilly’. 

Apache, Into Harms Way is the first of three books, although I might make it five one day, about a Royal Navy destroyer during the Second World War. 

Why Apache? Well she’s a Tribal Class destroyer. The real ones had names like Zulu, Ghurkha, Cossack, Mashona, Eskimo. I didn’t want to fictionalise a real ship like Larry Forrester in his book ‘Battle of the April Storm’, seems wrong and the survivors of that ship thought so too. So Apache is a fiction, but the events are not. 

They happened to Tribal destroyers…just not Apache; she is none and all of them.