Colin Graham is a trained hotelier who became a stockjobber instead. Retired now, he continues to put a history degree at the Open University on hold to write a second book. He is married to Jenny, a teacher, and he has two sons-Ross, who is a Ph.D. candidate in California and Jamie, who is a biodiversity consultant based in Oxford and London. Of Scottish and Northern English extraction, he is a cyclist and hiker, and has a keen interest in the arts and travel. This is his second published novel.