Fire And Ice

I wrote a short story in 2004 . It was entitled ‘Earth Child’ and was the tale of a troubled  teenaged boy named Jack  .  I occasionally revisited Jack and his family over the intervening years - always  trying to scale the brick wall  the character Jack seemed to have built around himself.  He was a privileged child  from a middle-class home with caring  parents who gave him everything  . He , in return , gave back nothing to life except his disdain and  hatred.

 After a while it became apparent to me that  I  could not allow Jack to keep his secrets  in the confines of a short story.  If I wanted to know what made him  hate and harm , then I would have to bring his character into a novel length story where he would find it more difficult to hide.   And so the novel Fire And Ice was born.

 Fire And Ice is my seventh novel and was by far the most difficult to write.  There are regular  reports of children who  take terrible revenge for the wrongs and hurts they feel they have suffered or in some cases have actually suffered.  Many of these troubled children  , like Jack  in my story , have never been deprived or mistreated in any way and yet their  vengeance  is terrible.  Why? Were they born with hatred in their hearts ?  Do they carry a  murderous gene or does their environment shape them into the killers they become? 

 Fire And Ice  is now available to down load from Amazon  .See more about  Fire And Ice on my eBook page on this site or on my Facebook pages.