Dail, M. F.

The author was born in Apartheid South Africa but left there for Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) within a few years of leaving school. There he spent a twelve-year period, working in the mining industry, on and off in field exploration, then underground and finally in administration. After that he left for Britain in a move aimed at improving career prospects. When following a given period, nothing came of this, he settled down to writing.