Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience as a peacekeeper with the United Nations, having lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia, West Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine.
A teacher once told me there are only two types of story; a hero goes on a journey, and a stranger rides into town.
To illustrate his point, he used just two texts - Homer's The Odyssey (an obvious one), and Shane, by Jack Schaefer, the most stranger-rides-into town novel you might ever have the joy to read.
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