Only Raising Dust On The Road: Part 1 Buckfast, Lager & Fags (Only Raising Dust On The Road Book 1)

Description

Only Raising On The Road is a novel set in Thailand. The book has been serialised into 4 novella-length books.

Part 1–Buckfast, Lager & Fags (approx. 26,000 words / 116 pages)

A group of friends from around the globe embark on a money-making enterprise to Thailand. Micky is a heavy drinking, streetwise, drug-using Scotsman who has been hired by his friend “Slim” to manage a bar on a tropical island on Thailand’s eastern gulf coast. Slim’s business partners, Sanjit (a South African born Indian) and Connie (a white, Afrikaner Durbanite and Sanjit’s girlfriend), have recruited Winston (Sanjit’s South African Indian “hood-rat” cousin) to be bartender. Can the mismatched motley crew make this venture work? Nothing in Thailand is ever as it seems, and dangers abound along the way.

The main thread of this story relates to drug and alcohol abuse–a serious issue, and one I have battled with throughout my life. In no way do I endorse drug-taking or the misuse of alcohol, nor is it my intention to glamorise it either. The story is, in many ways, a snapshot of a time in my life; I hope it is received as it was intended–as a creative endeavor.