Ray Scott was born in Kent in England and lived and worked for over 30 years in the Midlands near Birmingham. After National service in the Royal Navy he joined the insurance industry and was employed for many years in Birmingham and Wolverhampton. He and his wife Mary and their two boys immigrated to Australia in 1970 and have lived since then near Melbourne where he again joined the insurance industry, while Mary rejoined the nursing profession. Ray has been writing for many years. This is his sixth venture into publishing, the others being The Fifth Identity, Cut to the Chase (also a paperback) The Wimmera Shoot, Double Dutch, and Line of Dissent, all thrillers.