about the author

Drew Baton is 56, born and raised in New Zealand and lives in Auckland with his wife/partner of 25 years. He trained as a commercial pilot and instructor but found his true calling as the owner of a tourism business looking after international visitors. He is an avid reader and enjoys writing, travelling, and physical fitness. In his earlier years, a 21-day Outward Bound experience led into hiking, alpine training, search and rescue stints in New Zealand with further hiking offshore. These pursuits served as the inspiration for his first thriller, Storm Force.

about the book

Matt Bradley, former street gang teen, now a tough operator with an elite mountain rescue team.His wife Amanda vanishes in plain sight. There are no clues, no obvious motive.With the team leader stranded in a plane crash, he must lose his emotions and focus.His mission to find her pits him against criminal thugs working with a shadowy offshore network of killers.Where is she and why was she targeted?To save her, he must ‘fly blind’ against the clock in steep, remote wilderness.

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Hi allTo anyone who has purchased and read Storm Force, thank you and I hope you had a good read.I wrote Storm Force to set the scene for top mountaineers navigating challenging personal problems amid ........

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MY WRITING PROCESS

Years after I started writing Storm Force I wondered whether I should have taken more of a pre-planned approach with notes and research. At the time, a few minutes after I’d worked out where to go, I ........

EXPLORING CREATIVITY IN WRITING

My interest in creativity and imagination probably started with television series 24 (Jack Bauer) and Criminal Minds, epics with well thought out story lines. I saw the Chris Nolan space travel classi ........

My outdoor journey

I was about six when I summited my first peak, with Dad, on the steep, two hundred metre hills behind our vacation cabin. We called it the trig station hike. Those hills back onto a rugged state fores ........

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