REPRINT FROM INSIDE BACK COVER OF TRADER BOB, VINCE'S FIRST NOVEL PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 2015Vince Hawkins is a grammar school educated writer. Writing is the common thread of his life. He wrote little stories in the classroom at the age of five and he hasn’t done much different ever since. He was a financial journalist, an investment analyst for stockbrokers, and a magazine editor.After renouncing the demon drink his career caught a second wind and he became the managing editor for a company that put out reports on the retail industry. Later he turned self-employed, editing business reports and writing for trade magazines.Now able to work from anywhere and roam the world, he is on a hedonistic journey of realizing his bucket list ambitions. One remained unfulfilled:- writing a novel. Now this has been put right and Vince can say with some pride that he is an author. More books are bound to follow. Meanwhile, if you enjoy this first offer, please tell everyone you know because it takes about 10,000 sales a day for a book to go viral. A final word about marketing. Publishing on Amazon leaves marketing in the hands of the author. The crime in this book was so brilliant that I didn't know whether to finish the book or do the crime myself. But anyone reading the story might become a copycat, so I am sending the book with a warning to the world's leading financial institutions. Then I intend to tell the national press in various countries what I have done. If this plan achieves no publicity, dear reader, you may think it likely that someone, somewhere is giving it a go ... Regards, VinceBIOGRAPHY LISTED RE ADDICTION SELF-HELP BOOKSVince Hawkins is an Alcoholics Anonymous member of 17 years and a life member of the British Humanist Association. He wishes to increase the catch of people helped by 12 step programs by widening the net to embrace those put off by the god stuff. He is a frequent traveller from his home base in Valencia, Spain, attending AA and other twelve step meetings wherever he goes including Asia, Europe and the US. His website is at www.vincehawkins.com As an atheist his books are likely to be most useful to non-religious addicts including agnostics who wish to weigh up both sides of the argument. They are aimed at people who want to stop drinking, gambling and using drugs or give up anger, bullying, addictive sex and overeating. This list can be extended to include other addicts and people who simply want to stop behaving badly and improve their behavior. Just as the religious have no exclusive right to suffer from hangovers and withdrawal symptoms, neither have they cornered the market in serenity and spirituality or good deeds. Non-believers in gods can enjoy these human traits just as much and moreso. Vince's past role as a stockbroker's investment analyst means he has followed in the footsteps of Bill W, author of Alcoholics Anonymous or the Big Book, in more ways than one. He has also been a journalist and editor.