I am a geologist turned novelist. I spent thirty years wandering the world with wife and family. I explored and dug for metals and minerals, for gold and diamonds from the far north of Canada to the steppes of Africa, from the High Andes to the jungles of Brazil and from the Iranian deserts to the rain forests of Southeast Asia. I met, worked and lived with many extraordinary people – miners and prospectors, crooks and adventurers, millionaires and paupers, engineers and lawyers and of course other geologists. My last venture was an ill-fated gold mine in Zimbabwe scuppered by the price collapse that followed Blair and Brown’s sale of most of Britain’s gold reserves. It was then I turned to writing. I wanted to capture the adventure and romance of a life before the internet, before mass travel and mass communications when the remote places of the world were still remote. It is this you will find in my novels.