Being Tommy Boronovski

When Mike Bray is grabbed off the street on his way home on an ordinary Friday night, his world is turned inside out.

Coerced by the head of a South London crime gang to impersonate low-level criminal Tommy Boronovski, Mike quickly learns how to lie and side-step in order to keep his family safe.
Somehow he must find a way of protecting his family from threats of violence, and maintain his own ethics and morals as he treads a seemingly impossible path.
When the borders between himself and Tommy become blurred, it leaves him questioning his true identity, and hostage to his own temptations.

Find out what happens in this gripping story of survival and self-discovery.

Auteur

I've always written, as far back as I can recall anyway. Until 2011, that writing was just for me, or as rambling letters to friends, and travelogues to family. I never thought about why, or if others did similarly, and the thought of publishing never entered my head.

Since I left England in 1979, I've travelled widely, collecting experiences, people, and places as I did so. From the blood-soaked streets of Kampala, the polluted dust bowls of the Sahara, or the pristine ice floes of the Antarctic, I've gathered and filed them away. Some have recently squeezed through the bars of insecurity and are now at large in the pages of my first four novels. Others await their future fates.

Although I grew up in Norfolk, UK, I never felt truly at home until I lived in Australia, and that is no doubt the reason my first published novels are set there. All of my books this far have some element of fact in them. I guess it's hard for any writer not to include events from their life. Our experiences shape our thoughts and the words and actions of our characters.
I sometimes wish I'd become a novelist earlier in life, but then if I had, I wouldn't have the range of characters and events that I do.

After spending much of my adult life travelling, I now live in Whitley Bay, UK.