Duncan Harding is a pseudonym for Charles Whiting (1926-2007), who also wrote as Leo Kessler and John Kerrigan. Charles Whiting volunteered for the Army at age sixteen in 1943, where he saw active service in Belgium, Holland, and Germany with the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment. He has over 350 books to his credit, encompassing military history, espionage, biography, and action fiction, and received the Sir George Dowty Prize for Literature.