Mike Upton is a retired businessman who, for many years, worked extensively in industry as chief executive or managing director in separate running companies in Britain and America. He also worked in Europe, Africa, and South America. This is his ninth novel and again draws from his extensive personal knowledge of how major companies operate. Mike lives in Norfolk in the east of England and has been happily married to Brenda for forty-seven years. He has two grownup daughters and one granddaughter.