Bernado witness's his Gypsy clan being murdered by the SS in Poland during WW2. He is taken in by an old woman who is a healer, She is killed by German soldiers searching for food. Bernado is placed into an orphanage. The conditions were not fit for pigs. One priest had a penchant for caning small boys. He also raped some of them including Bernado. After three years Bernado managed to escape from his clutches after stabbing him in the face with a nail. He is now fifteen years of age. Bernado works hard clearing bombed building sites for three years. He trains stray dogs he has found wandering the streets to perform amazing acts. The now eighteen year old is hired to perform in a medium size circus travelling through Europe. Bernado becomes popular with most of the pretty girls who have acts in the circus. The dog act is very popular with the audience. Shandor an Irish Wolf Hound rides a three wheel bike. Bernado teaches Shandor and a pretty small dog Esmerelda to steal from people in the street after the show is ended. He is making a fortune from this ruse. After an altercation with the ringmaster and the circus strongman Bernado leaves the circus with a woman. They travel to Anzio Italy where they purchase a war damaged building and restore this to the former Casino. Business booms.

About the Author
I started life on a South Australian farm. My brother and i were sent to Adelaide South Australia to Prince Alfred College.From year seven. I purchased a small sheep property in some stony country when I was first married. Times were tough. Kangaroos and emus ate most of the crops we grew We had three girls born to us on this farm After ten years of scrimping and just about going bust we purchased a large property in a high rainfall area closer to where I had grown up. There was a large tract of good arable land under large gum timber. My wife and I developed this and trebled the farm production. Our youngest daughter Helen went out on her eighteenth birthday and was bitten by a mosquito then contracted the debilitating disease encephalitis. Prior to this Helen was a real personality girl. This really affected me as I was always convinced she would come out of the effects of the brain damage done. It did not happen. We farmed the property for over twenty years. I Broke my leg in a farming accident. For a long time I had bolts protruding from the bone of my lower leg. I started to write the first book 'Opal Eggs Of Fire' After two years of trying to run the farm we sold the two and a half thousand-acre property and moved to town. I was always interested in opal mining and in the cooler months my wife and i would mine for opals with a large old bulldozer we had bought During this time our only grandson Wesley was killed going to work in an car accident. This really hurt. When we were mining I developed a range of more efficient tools to rip hard rock. I eventually patented this tool range and worked with a multi-national firm. When the Global Finance Crisis hit they walked away from this project. This has cost us most of our savings. I still enjoy working and inventing. My main sport is fishing. I enjoy writing poetry short stories and novels. Some of the short stories I have written will be soon lost if not recorded.