Steve Parker

From Bullcatcher to Driller

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Produktbeschreibung

JC has just about done everything in the name of adventure: Getting pulled over by the cops - and asked to leave town -several times! Cornering unhappy bulls in Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia, recruited as a roughneck with no offshore experience, hired as a general dog's body on his first drilling rig off the Indian Ocean catching light-lovin' turtles, drilling RC Way in the Great Sandy Desert where the flies are so thick personnel are asked not to take a dump before meal times, for fear the flies will next land on your food, drinking bouts with rig pigs while Cyclone evaluations clock up time over Darwin and even encounters with giant Singapore rats. From screw-ups because of piss ups to punch-ups because of pub brawls, JC is proud to confirm that despite massive containers sliding around the deck of a platform at night, and a container hanging off the sides of a rig, never a day was lost drilling... "Massive experience on jack ups and semis, the only thing JC has left to do is man a drillship!"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 108mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 99g
• ISBN-13: 9781326189754
• ISBN-10: 1326189751
• Artikelnr.: 67760789

Autorenporträt

Steve Parker was born and raised in south east London. At age twenty-one, he joined the Metropolitan Police where he served for twenty years in numerous high profile squads before injury forced him out. On leaving the police he took up an enforcement job with a local authority until being made redundant. Once the dust had settled, he decided he'd had enough of enforcement work and decided that early retirement looked good. Thankfully, he was blessed with a complete lack of DIY skills so was legitimately able to get away with swanning around the house doing bugger all, all day long. Finding himself with plenty of spare time and a deep desire to never work for anyone again, he dug out an old screenplay he'd written when he was still a policeman and set himself a challenge to turn it into the book which eventually became his debut novel Their Last Words introducing Detectives Paterson and Clocks. He currently lives in the windier part of East Sussex with his wife and the laziest Cockapoo you've ever seen.