Patrick has had an interesting life - student, soldier, farmer, accountant, teacher. He is widely travelled and loves history. His life experiences have given him a deep well of knowledge from which to draw inspiration for his stories. As a young man his ambition was to be a career army officer, but there was his widowed mother and a farm to run so he studied agriculture. He found an outlet in his University Regiment and would later say 'Perhaps it was for the best; with my luck I'd have been the first poor bastard killed in Vietnam!' He harboured a story from his past of lost love, and decided he would write about it in a novel. It was the catalyst for a series of novels, now numbering thirteen. He writes from his home in rural Queensland and produces what Aussies call "a bloody good yarn".
