Memoir
Date Published: July 5, 2023
We all have two lives. We only get to experience living in the second after
we realize we only have just one.
Simon Yeats had his first real scare in life when he was attacked by a
kangaroo when he was seven years old. His first brush with the cliff-face
edge of death came when he was 12. His father drove his family down the
dangerous, 4WD only Skipper’s Canyon dirt road in New Zealand in a rented
minivan.
Including the occasions he was almost involved in two different plane
flight crashes, in the same night, there have been at least a half dozen
more times when the author has come within a moment’s inattention of being
killed.
However, none of those frightening incidents compare to what he experiences
after his son is abducted to South America.
This memoir is the story of how Simon used the traumatic experiences of his
life to give him strength to forge on during an incomprehensible 13 year
fight to be a father to his son.
What did it take for him to get to his second life?
It took him to truly understand what fear is.
EXCERPT
As I cross the hotel lobby floor towards the elevator, a man approaches me and addresses me by name.
Oh god, not again. I know what this is. Another process server who is going to hand me court documents to tell me I am now being sued for refusing to follow my ex-wife’s demands to buy my son another cell phone.
That would have been far more preferable.
The man leads me over to the couches in the hotel lobby, and we sit. He speaks only Portuguese so that I can only understand some of what he says. So, I use Google translate so I can fully understand what is going on.
His name is Michael.
The man is not from the court.
He is on the direct opposite side of the law, as it turns out.
He is a killer for hire.
My ex-wife has hired his services.
What? Right now, I know I am sitting in bizarro world.
About the Author
Simon Yeats has lived nine lives, and by all estimations, is fast running
out of the number he has left. His life of globetrotting the globe was not
the one he expected to lead. He grew up a quiet, shy boy teased by other
kids on the playgrounds for his red hair. But he developed a keen wit and
sense of humor to always see the funnier side of life.
With an overwhelming love of travel, a propensity to find trouble where
there was none, and being a passionate advocate of mental health,
Simon’s stories will leave a reader either rolling on the floor in
tears of laughter, or breathing deeply that the adventures he has led were
survived.
No author has laughed longer or cried with less restraint at the travails
of life.
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