David Pickering

David James Pickering is an author, musician and technologist living off grid in Portugal.

Having been a entrepreneur most of his life David has travelled the world and slid through it's diverse systems of culture to attempt to better understand the human condition and the influences that sway it.

Sometimes political in nature, David's works paint a stark picture of social disillusionment and finds a way to rip into the psyche of the reader to deliver the poignant message.

Described by readers as intellectually macabre literally fiction the available books consist of:-

CONVERGENCE -Now an adult, a former child abuse victim seeks his dark and blood thirsty revenge.

A dark and disturbing tale of a shattered psyche! CONTAINS STRONG CONTENT!

THE PAST - A young abuse victim barely escapes his tormentors with his life.

TWENTY FOUR YEARS LATER -The boys escape heralds a maelstrom of dark twists and turns for four seemingly unconnected people.

It's Olivia Corneal's first real date, which makes this shy retiring librarian a bit of an oddity in her mid thirties.

Can she overcome the haunting visions that plague her and not scare off the only man she has ever had real feelings for?

Brandon Nariz is pretentious, anal, narcissistic and the owner of New York's most fashionable restaurant! Unfortunately for Brandon his mind is gradually crumbling in on itself thanks to the unseen mental manipulation of a man only known as the Governor.

Everybody hates Eustacious Chamberlain.

He is a tax man! Coupled with the fact that, due to a hearing problem, Eustacious shouts at everybody he converses with makes Eustacious a very lonely man. Can he find a friend in his enigmatic and very wealthy neighbor? Even during these auditory hallucinations that scare him out of his wits?

Dax Heart is handsome, charismatic and plays by his own rules! An intelligent gypsy who feels nothing for anybody. So why does he keep randomly emotionally breaking down?

As five converge, thanks to the Machiavellian manipulation of The Governor a perverted underground snuff ring is threatened with exposure and the evil perpetrators very lives are in demand.

How can The Governor influence so many lives so easily?

Who is killing the twisted snuff ring off one by one?

Why are four random lives, Olivia, Dax, Eustacious and Brandon, being pulled together by The Governors invisible threads?

Convergence is a mile a minute, shocking book that will have you reeling from the incredible twists!

THE CIVIL UNREST BOOK ONE: Disillusionment.

A short story of anger, confusion and suffering written in a first person perspective. Does growing up in a culture of violence and misinformation in itself create mental disparity and cognitive dissonance? Are individuals to blame for being radicalized by ruling factions? In this thought provoking book we follow a young man's slow descent into madness and attempt to answer these very questions. Is it society that creates the cracks in his mind and if so, is madness an inevitable result of such a bastardized version of society?

THE CIVIL UNREST BOOK TWO: The Solitary Surfer.

An introspective story of a person fleeing humanity and returning to the freedom of water; from where all life began. One person's journey of acceptance and the ultimate detachment.