Redemption: From Iron Bars to Ironman

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By the time he was 18, he was immersed so deeply in the underworld that a prison sentence for the possession of a gun wasn’t enough to change his trajectory – indeed, it only made it worse. Jasper Jolly While McAvoy is forthright about “this overwhelming desire that I’m going to be successful in life at something” (to the extent that he gently dismisses the idea of marriage or family any time soon) he has also started seeing how he could use his story to inspire others. McAvoy is currently working with the William Watts Memorial Foundation, providers of sports facilities to underprivileged young people at risk of offending, along with his sponsors, Serco. Coach Kyle happened to see the man when he entered the gym, and he thought to himself that the guy was out of place. Probably a detective of some sort, maybe a narc lookingfor a dealer. It would not be the first arrest in or around the gym.

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McAvoy was clearly aged beyond his years by the experience, but perhaps the greatest influence was a disdain for a life of struggle that is led by so many. The rules of the New Haven Youth League required that each kid play at least ten minutes in each game. Exceptions were allowed for players who had upset their coaches by skipping practice or violating other rules. In such cases, a coach could file a report before the game and inform the scorekeeper that so-and-so wouldn’t play much, if at all, because of some infraction. This was frowned on by the league; it was, after all, much more recreational than competitive.

The decrepit old horn finally squawked. The game was mercifully over. One team cheered, and one team really didn’t care. Both lined up for the obligatoryhigh fives and “Good game, good game,” as meaningless to twelve-year-olds as it is to college players. As Kyle congratulated the opposing coach, he glanced down the court. The white man was gone. David Mark is one of the most popular authors from The United Kingdom, who has written several highly successful books in the crime, mystery, and thriller genres. He is particularly famous for writing down the Aector McAvoy crime series. Before beginning his writing career, author Mark used to work as a journalist and spent around 15 years in the field. For the first seven years, he was associated with The Yorkshire Post as a crime reporter. He used to keep walking on the Hull streets very often in search of the reports of crime. Eventually, the region went on to become the setting for the plots of the novels written by author Mark in the Aector McAvoy series. The writing style of author Mark is very much influenced by the number of court cases that he covered during his journalist career. He also studied the jaded and defeatist police officers, the investigators who were both competent and incompetent according to the situation. McAvoy had joined Kevin Brown, who was 47 at the time, in plotting to rob armoured vehicles near Sudbury. However, the pair were caught and McAvoy was given an almost unheard of life sentence, with the added bonus of being a Category A prisoner – the highest level of offender in the system – because of his associates and consequently escape risk. At a succession of other prisons, including Belmarsh, McAvoy sat “literally rotting” in the company of criminals; the 32 year old even shared a wing at one point with notorious Islamist terrorist, Abu Hamza. He was to spend eight years behind bars. Epiphany behind bars For a twenty-five-year-old law student with no criminal record andno illegal habits or proclivities, the presence and the attention of a man who gave all indications of being employed by some branch of law enforcement should have caused no concern whatsoever. But it never worked that way with Kyle McAvoy. Street cops and state troopers didn’t particularly bother him. They were paid to simply react. But the guys in dark suits, the investigators and agents, the ones trained to dig deep and discover secrets–those types still unnerved him.

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The other things that influenced author Mark to write his books include the inertia of England’s justice system as well as the sheer and raw griefs of the ones who were touched by the tragedy and the savagery of the system. Author Mark was born and brought up in Carlisle, The United Kingdom. With the help of his determination and dedication, he made use of his previous career of journalism to develop his new career in the field of writing. Author Mark began his writing career with a few stories initially and then went on to become a full time writer. Eventually, he became one of the international bestselling novelist in the crime and mystery genres. As of today, he has written a total of 6 books in the Aector McAvoy series. This series also contains a short novella, which is available in the form of an ebook. One of the novels of the Aector McAvoy crime series, known as the Dark Winter, was selected by the panelists of the Harrogate New Blood award as well as for a Richard & Judy award. The novel also became one of the Sunday Times bestselling novel after its release. Currently, author David Mark lives a happy life in Lincolnshire, England, along with his wife, a couple of kids, and a small group of pet animals. When I was looking at all these people around me that I thought were quite successful in life and had all the trappings of wealth, they went out and people showed them respect”. The Hollywood ending to what is already an amazing story was not to be; despite his formidable physique, the technical aspects of rowing on water meant the GB squad was out of reach after spending his prime in a cell. “I missed the boat,” he cuttingly remarks. He then landed upon Ironman – a combined 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile cycle, and 26.2 mile marathon – as the discipline best suited to his extreme endurance capacity. I can say to the young kids, if you think what I’ve done up to this point is amazing then imagine what you can achieve if you change now,” he says. “If I can get one of those kids not to go down that road in life, and not to spend their whole lives in prison I’d be happy with that. Completely happy with that”. With four minutes left in the game, Coach Kyle looked down the bench, nodded at a somber and pouting little boy named Marquis, and said, “Do you want to play?” Without responding, Marquis walked to the scorers’ table and waited for a whistle. His violations were -numerous–skipping practice, skipping school, bad grades, losing his uniform, foul language. In fact, after ten weeks and fifteen games, Marquis had broken every one of the few rules his coach tried to enforce. Coach Kyle had long since realized that any new rule would be immediately violated by his star, and for that reason he trimmed his list and fought the temptation to add new regulations. It wasn’t working. Trying to control ten inner-city kids with a soft touch had put the Red Knights in last place in the 12 and Under division of the winter league.