Prior to retirement, Patrick Laughy served in the Royal Canadian Navy as a radioman and in the Vancouver Police Force as Sergeant in the Dog Squad before opening a private security business. In his early years he published seventy adult fiction novels and while in the police force co-authored a book on dog training. After he retired, Pat returned to his passion for writing and since 2012 has written two police procedural/murder mystery novels: 'The Little Black Book' and 'Alumni'; the first e-book in the illustrated fantasy series 'Atlantis-Ship of the Gods'; and four books in a series entitled 'The 4th Reich', a series that follows a fictional family through the reality of WWll and beyond to present day.He is presently at work on Part 1 of Book 7 in this series.Pat has a great love of the outdoors, reading (all genres) and classic cars, but spends most of his time writing. He lives in Chilliwack, British Columbia.