Bob Gillespie

As a Scot and a post-war baby born of an Italian mother, Bob Gillespie is a cultural mongrel. He has worked and lived in the U.K., the U.S.A., Italy and France where his interest in comparative Western European cultures brought him to author Machiavelli and The Mayflower in 2009. He started writing The Angry Sky in 1985 and finished a researched first draft shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which more-or-less sabotaged the whole Northern-Hemisphere, Cold-War thriller genre at the time. Of The Angry Sky, Amazon.com comments: ‘Describing himself as a son of the Cold War, those TV-free, frozen Chicago winters have aroused dark memories of terrorist outrage, of Mafia attrocities and of Columbian drug cartels, which Bob Gillespie has woven into a Cold War, historical thriller called, 'The Angry Sky.' Among all those thrillers aimed at the post war Baby Boomers, this must surely be the most exciting, the most authentic and the most memorable. His almost literary style is a joy to read.’ With the return of complexity in Russian relations with the West and with the pending hindsight of a M.A. in Critical and Creative Writing at the University of Sussex to be completed hopefully in 2018, he has rewritten and is republishing this novel as Brutes for Kin in October 2017. Married to a Frenchwoman, Bob currently oscillates between Paris, Brighton and a few other places