https: //www.iansutherland.co.za/Ian successfully debuted as a novelist in 2018 with his WW II thriller, Featherstream after graduating with an MA in Creative Writing (UCT) under the supervision of Etienne van Heerden. Ian's latest novel Catastrophe is set in the immediate aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Disaster in Ukraine, USSR. His fascination with the event was sparked by a real-time case study in his Mechanical Engineering degree and led to several years of intensive research. Ian has an MBA from Columbia University and has worked in strategy consulting and finance in New York, Sydney and Cape Town, where he currently resides. Passionate about history and travel, Ian enjoys intense, immersive research including language studies.