I confess to being terrified of writing action scenes, although I love reading them. When my publisher Penmore Press sent me out the PDF Book Block of His Most Italian City for proof reading I nearly fell over backwards when I read my first attempt at an action scene that had given me such labour and angst. It actually sounded like real action. I wrote to my editor expressing my amazement but, I have to confess (again), writing one now still fills me with dread and anticipati