As for me, I now live in Toronto. I was formerly a mining engineer and travelled the world widely. Tiring of the mining industry (my unalterable conviction being that mining in 40 degrees in the shade was a vastly overrated pastime) and wanting to experience more of the world firsthand, I also worked from time to time as a docker, fruit inspector and forester. My books and screenplays draw on these experiences to provide characters, backgrounds and scenes.I am the author and publisher of the "Maxim Gunn" series of action/adventure books. I have also written some fifteen other novels: drama, thriller and action/adventure and screenplays which follow the central character to countries and places where the forces of nature as much as people provide the conflict.