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About The Author |
Who is "L'Anglais"? Mike Charles also known to some as "L'Anglais," has travelled from Asia Minor to the Western extremities of the Americas. Unfortunately he has also travelled in some of the most beautiful yet war ravaged countries of S.E Asia. Besides being one of the first to identify Sendero Luminoso, the dreaded Shining Path of Peru, in the late 60s, he has run across varied homespun terrorist organizations in his role as a personal protection officer and Security Consultant. "L'Anglais" is in his mid 50s and has a degree in Applied Social Studies and Education. He has also had formal training in Social Psychology. He has studied widely at the post graduate level and has been the Principal of a reformatory, worked with gang members, both on the street and in institutions and with older teens who ranged in criminal experiences from rapists/sexual predators to arsonists, drug pushers and young people who were used by criminal organizations as killers because they could abuse the civilized laws of Young Offenders Acts in numerous countries. He has had previous publications in Forte, Magazine for the Arts, 1999, and two pieces for Roaring Heart Press; one a dialogue between a Father and his Daughters, 2000 and Dulcet Demons and Kick Ass Angels (from the Darkness of Depression to the Armour of the Light) a piece on the suffering of PTSD published in 2001, all under his given name. "L'Anglais" was not always so civilized. Apart from his career as an educator, he has travelled widely as mentioned above, from Europe and North Africa, to both the Americas. He has made what he refers to as 'side trips', into 'other areas'. His life experiences have taken him from the jungles to the desert and from the tundra to some of the world's major cities. He has worked as a 'spider man' in construction, as a doorman in the entertainment industry and as a personal 'minder' to businessmen of many persuasions. In this part of his life he has been shot at, shot and stabbed, seriously beaten and had near misses from explosive situations. From individual actions he has recovered quite well, but his body now reminds him of the cumulative effects of his former lifestyle. In his travels and through his choice of professions he has worked closely with men and women in what might loosely be referred to as law enforcement agencies, usually as 'friendlies', though he admits he has also encountered, 'the others'. He has had working relationships with servicemen and women from a variety of national backgrounds and considers many of them friends. |