I am a retired fishery manager, originally from England where I was educated. I have lived in the Pacific Islands for over 40 years. I believe the South Pacific islands and New Guinea have been largely overlooked as settings for espionage fiction. I have traveled to most of the Pacific Island archipelagos and lived in Papua New Guinea, Philippines and New Caledonia. My wife is from Papua New Guinea and I am a fluent speaker of her language and those of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. I have published 150 scientific and technical articles on fisheries in the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia, some of which are regarded as seminal works on the region, and led to my election as a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. I have also published two fiction books, The Last Dream Before You Die and Everything Hurts, which were reviewed on Amazon and Kirkus. We currently live in Hawaii.