David P Elliot - Featured Author - “Clan”

“CLAN” is the first novel by David P Elliot and was launched on the 6th December 2008.

The theme draws heavily on the Clan system in Scotland in a particularly turbulent period in “The Borders” – and includes both contemporary and historical information which will be of interest not only to those who enjoy supernatural or historical genre, but thriller aficionados as well . But it is not set entirely in the past as the rich and the powerful today are drawn into the evolving plots and conspiracies.

The story is told through David Elliot who is 57, frustrated, out of work and has three failed marriages behind him. When he finds himself out of work in 2007 he goes to the borders of Scotland hoping that his ancestry will help him find some validation of his life.

Accompanied by his daughter, son-in-law and his beloved grandson Thomas, he finds that his bloodline leads his family into terrifying danger. 700 years of history threaten those he holds dearest as myth and reality of “The Bloodiest Valley in Britain” combine.

The corruption of the rich and powerful meets legend as Good and Evil clash over the lust for the ancient Throne of Scotland and power in the modern world.

William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, Border Reivers, creatures of supernatural horror and past heroes of the Elliot ‘Clan’ are all involved as the evil Lord William de Soulis actions his plan to assume power over an unsuspecting world.

All that stands against him is a family fighting desperately to protect a child.

Their only weapon is their love of family…. The power of their ‘Clan’.

David P Elliot is a writer specialising in thriller fiction usually with historic and supernatural overtones and themes.

Born in Reading, England in 1949 he has 3 children and two grandchildren, one of which, Thomas, was the inspiration for his first book ‘CLAN’.

Most of the background for the novel ‘CLAN’ was born out of family history research into the Elliot Clan. The Borders of Scotland have a particularly colourful and violent history – the so called “Border Reivers” in the 14th - 15th centuries were ‘Clan’ or family based groups who raided with impunity across the borders of England and Scotland, this was not an “English/Scottish” phenomena as Reivers would form alliances or engage in feuds, with families with or against their countrymen.

Reivers are “credited” with inventing cattle rustling as well as developing what later came to be called in the USA “The Protection Racket” – they were practising this some 300 years before Chicago was established. Words such as to be “Bereaved” and “Blackmail” owe their genesis to these times.

Imagine a time when you would live under so-called “Jedart Justice” where a man was hanged first and tried afterwards!

If you are an Elliot (and there are over 70 spellings of that name alone!), or a Robson, Armstrong, Nixon, Kerr or one of the many other “Border” names, researching your family history will probably yield very interesting results.

David P Elliot

www.davidpelliot.com

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