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COWBOYS AND INDIANS

RICHARD GRAINGER READS FROM HIS FORTHCOMING NOVEL:

COWBOYS AND INDIANS

Cowboys and Indians is a black comedy set in South Armagh during the Troubles. Double agent "Fishknife" has one final assignment to escape his past and pocket £5.5m

John Harris has unique skills. Aged 17 and disaffected with life, he opts for a career as an IRA terrorist. 

Diffident and cold, he soon becomes the perfect killing machine. Then he meets Ellen, the niece of the head of the PIRA and falls in love her. He is led to believe that she - and their child - were assassinated by Special Branch.

But when he finds out that he has been used and lied to, he becomes a double agent working for the MI6 sanctioned Force Research Unit.

Given the codename “Fishknife”; he becomes the harbinger for death and destruction across the province in a British Government sanctioned blood-fest.

But the Good Friday Agreement makes him redundant. He passes his time working as a Life Coach for former terrorists, writing erotic fiction under a pseudonym and his Saturday nights as a ‘70s disco DJ.

And then he receives the phone call he has been waiting for.

To claim the £5.5 million in a Gibraltar bank account, he must assassinate Sir John Stephenson, whose report is about to reveal who he is and expose the depths to which the British Government sunk during The Troubles.

Before, that is, they can assassinate him.

cowboys and indians by maverick writer

INDUSTRIAL ACTION SURVEY

The Public Sector industrial action has polarised the country in a manner not seen since Scargill and Thatcher locked horns in '84.


Should people with jobs and pensions go on strike to protect their own interests when there are millions who have neither a job nor a pension? We are facing maybe 10 years of austerity - where is the money going to come from? Have your say on the strike action.

Last Wednesday Jeremy Clarkson ruffled a few feathers on The One Show. What did you think of his comments? Please click on the link below (I finally managed to load it to my blog, but Word Press is still stubbornly resisting; it would have been quicker to hand write the survey 22 times and post it to each of you, but that's technology for you).

Thanks very much for doing this.

Yea right...


Thanks very much to all of the five of yis who contributed to this survey! And very little thanks to the rest of yis who couldn't be arsed! No Christmas pressies for you lot!


Anyway, enough of the vitriol; I mean haven't we all get enough to do with coursework, partying, buying Christmas pressies without filling in some silly feckin' survey that takes about 2 nano feckin'  seconds to do?


So here's a chart showing what the five of yis thought about hisself's comments on The One Show, and what yis think about the strikers themselves. Not very representative, mind, but at least it's job done.


Have a good one, and don't bother asking me to fill in yer feckin' survey next time!


By the way, this counts as a Christmas card, so don't expect to get another one.


PS. This post will probably fail me the course, but I've had to have some light relief after four feckin' hours of trying to get my voice onto the internet.