John Sliz began writing in 1990 and during the 90s had numerous short stories published. In 2006, his first non-fiction book was published and that was followed in 2009 by the release of The Storm Boat Kings, which sold around the world. Since then he has written the first 8 books of his Market Garden Engineer Series and a few other books on WWII. Returning to fiction, both Nowhere to Run and The Code of History were published in 2013.