Patrick McCusker

Patrick McCusker is a published author, lecturer and nature conservationist. My first book "Planet Dancing" is about conserving nature on large scale and was published by Open Gate Press, London in 2011. My second book entitled "FEAR" is an American Medical thriller with a young Japanese-American doctor as the heroine. The story opens in China but then moves to the USA, Boston in particular. Something in a river that flows through Harbin, a city in NE China, is killing people: not just killing them but reducing them to dry husks. My latest release, "The Extraordinary Temptation" is a religious horror story. The true Crown-of-Thorns is discovered in a medieval monastic settlement in Ireland. Embedded on a broken thorn is a tiny piece of mummified skin. After months of soul-searching a wealthy American attempts to clone Jesus from this piece of skin. Unsettling things happen to those who become involved in this work.I have won a number of prizes for short stories and at the moment I am attempting to write a stage play. I expect it will be a complete disaster - but here's hoping!When I was younger I lived in the USA and Canada. While in Canada he stayed for four months in a First Nation's village. I tasted real clam chowder on Vancouver Island and Florida introduced him to my first bowl of homily grits.I now live in Wicklow, Ireland, with a lump of a cat that chases big rabbits without success. But she insists on prowling the one hectare garden that one day ...!Contact me, or the cat to collaborate at: mccusker.patrick@gmail.com