Michael Daly was born in Rathcormac, Ireland in the 1950s and came to Britain to join the RAF at the age of seventeen. After a successful career in the RAF Regiment, he left as a Squadron Leader and pursued a second career as a university bursar in Durham for Teikyo University of Japan, where he works to this day. He has written fiction as a hobby for many years, but this is his first published work. In 1985, he was awarded an MBE for military service and in 2016 the Freedom of the City of London. He lives alone in Durham city.