Author Biography
About the Author: Norman MacRitchie Reeley Following family tradition, he was originally destined to be an engineer in the shipyards of the River Clyde in Scotland. A chance meeting on a rain filled winters evening with an old school friend changed the direction of his life forever. He defied his father; quit his secure engineering apprenticeship to train to become a chef. As well as enjoying the creative but high-pressure world of the kitchen, he re-discovered the joys and satisfaction of education, and became a Senior Lecturer in a College of further education. His underlying ambition however, was to open a family-run bistro-style restaurant in the manner of the French or Italian model. He quit his job in the college and opened his dream bistro-restaurant near to the Royal Navy Clyde submarine base, which quickly obtained a reputation far beyond the local area. The family moved to Spain, buying a hotel in the beautiful seaside town of Javea, on the Costa Blanca. After retiring, Norman has enjoyed travelling around Europe in his old campervan, writing travel articles, dabbling in local politics and amateur sculpture. He now writes fulltime. In reference to his own experiences, Norman has always been fascinated by the way supposedly random chance, luck, or abstruse agents influence and change the most detailed and thought-out plans that man can devise. Frederick Forsyth used this to great effect in his novel The Jackal, when President Charles de Gaul bends his head in salute just as the assassins bullet is fired. It is a pity that President Jack Kennedy didnt have the same luck, chance, or divine intervention force back in Dallas in 1963. The Karma of Vengeance is the second novel in the trilogy The Karma Killings
