Born in 1941, George Rosie was educated in Edinburgh. He has worked as a journalist, including as the Sunday Times Scottish Affairs Correspondent, in television, including as associate producer on After Lockerbie, which won the BAFTA for best documentary in 1999, as a dramatist (his plays have won many awards including the Guardian Critics Award and the Independent Theatre award) and writer (his non-fiction books include The British in Vietnam). Death's Enemy is his first novel.