Born in Kavieng, New Ireland, the author is now retired and lives at Airlie Beach, Queensland, with his wife Carol. They've travelled widely both internationally and within Australia. He's lived in New Guinea , Tasmania, Queensland, Western Australia, a year in Europe and half a year in S.E. Asia.

He's grown Macadamias and run cattle, been a restauranteur, wildlife park owner, property developer, storage operator, senior public servant, practising solicitor, Justice of the Peace and tax agent, as well as grown tropical fruit commercially. He's been a paper boy, worked as a surveyor's chainman, brushed scrub, worked in a timber mill, been a prelim. boy in the old Brisbane Stadium, cut cane both burnt and plants, picked tobacco and picked fruit along the Murray River .

Has been partowner and manager of ships both charter and tramp working from Europe and around the S.W. Pacific into Kieta, Bougainville on a regular basis, and Amamapare in West Irian. A keen sailor, water skier, pilot and spearfisherman, he completed National Service in the Royal Australian Navy. Loves the ocean and the reef, boating of any kind, his wife, family and good friends.

This is his first novel. He's working on two more, the immediate sequel Nightmare, and a prequel. Was first published in an Australian magazine as a short story writer when in his twenties.

Since then life took over and only now in retirement can he pursue his dream.