Claire Smith is 46 and lives in Sale, South Manchester, England. Since childhood she loved to read and soon graduated from The Famous Five, through Swallows and Amazons to Jacqueline Suzanne and Jackie Collins in her teens. In her twenties she discovered such writers as Tom Clancy, Frederick Forsyth, Clive Cussler, Wilbur Smith and Robert Ludlum to name but a few. However, it was not one of these greats who inspired Claire to write. It was a series of dreadful books by several someones she can't remember which prompted her to make real the notion "I could do better than this..." So "No More Bu...