The author is in his 80s now and has been writing for over 50 of those years, moderately successful but never enough to give up his day job. That should be jobs: like most people he has tried several things in restless career: airman, barman, oil rigger, insurance, gas chromatographer, instrument technician, radio trouble shooter, and others too humorous to mention! He has written for most genres(even romance, his most unsuccessful!) including radio and TV, broadcasting in the former, both in the UK and Ireland. Walks, paints, writes pathetic poetry and winters in Spain. This is his fifth nove...