Alex Franklyn
Hi! I’m Alex Franklyn, I’m an author from the UK, welcome to my world… please do also check out my social media if you would like to interact with me more and get to know me…
©2023AlexFranklyn
©2023AlexFranklyn
New Work coming!
New Work coming!
What’s the story of the story?
As the ambition is to cover every genre this my second book is a gangster comedy/crime fiction that is completely brain candy and of no intellectual nourishment whatsoever. The story is that two men, one in their 40’s John, the other younger in late 20’s Billy (Biben) both work at a warehouse set in London docklands area. This happens to be owned by a female mob boss Ruby who is the main importer/exporter/contact for fencing internationally for other London mobs. They’re just general workers and are in need of extra cash for bills, alimony and just generally having the ability to live. They have a regular pub they go to where the owner Jack is also in league with the female mob boss as a safe place for the employees to relax after work for a pint. Whilst there they meet a man who is basically a contract killer Daniel who’s gone rogue due to the love of his life being murdered. He is out for revenge but requires a clean up crew as he’s now working independently.
John and Billy end up being hired however are completely incompetent to the point that they end up accidentally killing the very people that Daniel is trying kill. It is farcical but through a series of unfortunate events they use their abilities and resources between them to dispose of the bodies. As the story progresses you learn more of how the situation came to be for the character to be involved and the long suffering investigating DI Caulter. Caulter is trying to take down the mob boss Ruby who has no idea what else is going on behind the scenes. As Caulter has his mission to try to bring down the corrupt connections that the London mobs have with the higher echelons in the police force. He believes these have prevented him as a honorable officer progressing in his career. There are some unexpected situations and turns of events that occur in the end that you might not be expecting as to how everything ends as you learn the truer nature of the pub owner Jack and how John and Billy cope with their unusual circumstances. Murders, intrigue, Easter eggs and total chaos it has a story to follow to take the reader towards a situation that they will not be expecting and hopefully it turns out alright for most people in the end…
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Previous Work
Previous Work
How did the story come about?
The Empathist is my first published novel with Spellbound Books. The story came about from a discussion I had whilst I was working in one of the many social care sectors over the years. I’d had a discussion with a trainee who was on placement and was of the opinion that there was no need to have personal therapy… I argued that we all have unhealed stuff that will get triggered by the people we work with. I remembered that my therapist retired and my supervisor returned to teaching in a university both within a month of each other.
I said imagine (like many) if you were on medication yourself, if you lost all supports at the same time how it could all go very wrong, if you had a lot of trauma you were also running from… I then thought Ooo… that sounds like an interesting idea for a book! Thus The Empathist was born, which tells the story of a therapist where just this happens and her mind begins to slowly unravel. The point of the story being that sometimes the person you need to empathise with most is yourself, first before other people. You need to know yourself before others, otherwise you take this into your life and start to lose yourself with those whom you work with. This book is fictional and based just upon this concept, but it does go to some very dark places in the character’s psyche…