Ian Andrew, winner of the Publishers Weekly, BookLife prize in 2017, grew up in the coastal town of Larne, Northern Ireland. He joined the Royal Air Force at age eighteen and worked initially as an aircraft technician before being commissioned as an Intelligence Officer. After serving for two decades he relocated, with his Australian wife, to the rural South West of Western Australia. Surrounded by a resident mob of kangaroos, he is currently working on a couple of Ghost-Writing contracts and the next novel in the Wright & Tran series of detective stories, the first of which was the award winning, Face Value.