Tony May

Author Tony May spent the early years of his career as a fabricator/ welder in the oil and gas industry working on worldwide offshore and onshore drilling rigs, resulting in his first novel, Rig Pigs. Graduating with a degree in welding engineering in the early 1980's, he then entered the construction industry. Tony spent several years working in Thailand, experiencing a tangled web of deceit which spawned his second novel titled, Codename Dredge. In 1991, he re-entered the oil and gas industry...See more

Author Tony May spent the early years of his career as a fabricator/ welder in the oil and gas industry working on worldwide offshore and onshore drilling rigs, resulting in his first novel, Rig Pigs. Graduating with a degree in welding engineering in the early 1980's, he then entered the construction industry. Tony spent several years working in Thailand, experiencing a tangled web of deceit which spawned his second novel titled, Codename Dredge. In 1991, he re-entered the oil and gas industry managing steel fabrication facilities in several countries including Indonesia, Thailand and Kuwait at the conclusion of the 1991 Gulf War which led him to pen Smoke in the Wind, which is fiction based on his oilfield experiences and encompasses Alaska, Sumatra, Indonesia, and the Kuwait oil well fires project. Tony grew up on a farm learning to ride horses at a very early age out of which grew a passion for rodeo. Tony's latest novel, Horses Cry, tells of an exciting rodeo love story of cowboy Steer Wrestling and cowgirl rodeo Barrel Racing intertwined with illegal drug smuggling within the rodeo circuit, assassinations and rodeo excitement.... See less