User:Miro Ringbolt

The Eye of Solomon, marks the start of a new career following on from a speckled and much-travelled life. Set in the early nineteen eighties, it is a gripping and fast moving tale of conspiracy and legal shenanigans, adventure on land and sea, and deadly violence. Brought to life by a colourful assortment of characters and a vivid sense of place, the novel draws on his many experiences at sea and his travels around the coastal and interior regions of East Africa. Beyond its main thread the novel is also a love story, where the two principal characters come to a gradual realisation of their feelings for each other. Miro grew up mainly in post-war Germany, his family moving around from one military base to another, rarely settling anywhere for long, so that travel and uprootedness became normal from an early age. This legacy of itchy feet, along with a curious fascination for the sea, drove him into the Royal Navy at fifteen and kicked off a career spanning some twenty five years. Civilian life eventually claimed him in 1990 when he became a software developer and went on to run his own company. He retired in 2012 to follow what had always been the real passion: fiction writing. He lives in Weymouth in the summer, and escapes the winter to a small Grenadian island from December to April where he does much of his writing. He is currently writing the sequel to The Eye of Solomon, set in the Caribbean. When he is not writing Miro likes yachting, snorkelling, cliff walking, reading, and of course, travelling.

Synopsis Patrick Redman has screwed up his life and dropped his friends in the mire to boot. How could young Petty Officer in the Royal Navy with important responsibilities and a promising career be so stupid? It all started when he went diving with friends in Kenya, his buddy got himself killed and the guy’s girlfriend asked him to smuggle some gold artefact out of the country for her on his ship. Truth was, he fancied her and would have done anything to get into her pants. So now he’s on the streets with no money, no job, and most frustratingly, no passport; so he can’t even get back to Kenya. Or can he?

Set in the early nineteen eighties (before the Internet and mobile phones), this is a gripping and fast moving tale of conspiracy and legal shenanigans, adventure on land and sea, and deadly violence, brought to life by a colourful assortment of characters and vivid sense of place. The novel draws on the author’s many experiences at sea and his travels around the coastal and interior regions of East Africa. Beyond the main thread lies a love story, where the two principal characters come to a gradual realisation of their feelings for each other.