Book launch attracts vibrant crowd

Continued from page 1. Held at Goodbooks in Jessie Street, the Wellington launch of “El Flamingo” attracted a vibrant and diverse crowd.

Goodbooksco-owner, well known Radio New Zealand Book reviewer Catherine Robertson, in a recent interview on Radio New Zealand described El Flamingo as “very funny … really well plotted and a gripping read. “

Nick is now based in Mexico, where he works as a freelance journalist, including as a contributor to “The Dominion Post”.

He returned to his hometown for the book launch.

He says he is delighted with the warmreception to the novel and his publisher has requested a follow up.

Nick returns to Mexico later this month where he will begin to work on the sequel.

Perhaps unsurprisingly “El Flamingo” begins at a beach bar in Mexico and, again perhaps unsurprisingly, it follows the adventures of a disillusioned actor.

A piece of sunset noir, “El Flamingo” outlines the adventures of Lou Galloway, who leaves Los Angeles for Mexico so he can drown his sorrows in cheap mescal.

While drinking at the beach bar Lou is mistaken for a rogue assassin known as El Flamingo.

Before he can make his escape, he meets MariaCarla, an enigmatic beauty with incredible perfume, and can’t bring himself to turn back.

Lou is ultimately swept into the dangerous world of Latin American espionage that leaves him only one choice – to adopt the identity of El Flamingo.

As Lou assumes the identity of El Flamingo, he realises that this may be what he was searching for all along.

The inspiration for his novel came, Nick says, when he was at a point where he craved some kind of drastic change.

“I’d been … working sporadically as an actor, feeling a little hollow, and I’d never really felt like I’d