{"type":"video","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Dailymotion","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com","title":"Author CK Brown discusses his new spy thriller, The Ban Affair, partly set in Tenby","description":"A former banker with family ties to Tenby, where his mother still lives, has set part of his new spy thriller in the Pembrokeshire seaside town.Chris Brown, who writes as CK Brown, has published The Ban Affair, the sequel to his debut The Z Affair, which sold thousands of copies worldwide and earned coverage in the Cambrian News.The new novel follows Philip Trent, a working-class former soldier from Smethwick turned private detective, who is dragged back into the secret world he thought he\u2019d left behind when a mysterious Hong Kong millionaire plots to trigger a third world war. Trent\u2019s hunt for answers takes him from Birmingham and the Black Country to Stoke-on-Trent, Tenby, London, Hong Kong, Budapest and Paris.Chris, who is in his 70s, has lived in various parts of the country over the years before eventually settling in the countryside near Kinver, but he still has family ties to Tenby, where his mother lives.\u201cThere have been working-class spies before, but they\u2019re usually Cockney. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s been a Black Country one,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted to give him a normal working-class background. A lot of the things that go on around him are quite normal, going to the pub, taking the dog for a walk, those sorts of things, and then there\u2019s this fantastical adventure on top of that.\u201dIt was during lockdown that Chris first began writing what would eventually become The Z Affair.\u201cI started fiddling around with the first book in lockdown, just to fill the time,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen I retired, I finished it off and somebody said it wasn\u2019t bad and that I should try to get it published, so I did. It keeps me busy during retirement and keeps the brain active.\u201dThe books are set in the early 1970s, an era Chris remembers well and deliberately chose as the backdrop for Trent\u2019s adventures.\u201c1971 was when I left school and started work, so I wanted to set it in an era that I probably have rose-tinted memories of,\u201d he said. \u201cI can still remember a lot of it and wanted to make it seem real, with the things that were on sale, the politics of the time and the world situation. Things were different then.\u201dA lifelong West Bromwich Albion supporter who first started going to matches with his father more than 65 years ago, Chris says supporting the Baggies is one of the few things he has in common with his fictional hero.He is already writing a third Philip Trent novel, which will complete the trilogy.An audiobook of The Ban Affair is also in production and has a particularly personal significance for Chris.\u201cBoth my mother and my stepfather are blind now, so in a way this is for them because they obviously can\u2019t read it at all,\u201d he added.The Ban Affair is published by Austin Macauley and is available now from Amazon and Waterstones.","author_name":"Tindle News","author_url":"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/tindlenews","width":480,"height":269,"html":"