Donald John Macdonald - Jock since his school days at Dollar Academy - was born in Ladybank, Scotland, on the Ides of March, 1932. His working life included National Service as a Subaltern in the Black Watch, eight years as an Assistant Superintendent of Police in Uganda, and a long and successful career in Human Resources in Scotland, Somalia and South Africa. After retirement in 1996, he is now happily settled back in Dollar, Scotland, where it all began. At the urging of with his wife and schooldays sweetheart, Eileen, son Niall and daughter Karen, he's doing a bit of writing, with Dead End...