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My own background is much less sensational than my heroes', but surprise, surprise, it began, like them, in a small town in the West of Scotland. My home was Kilmarnock, and I do remember ration books [just!] and the taste of NHS bottled orange juice. But there, their lives and mine diverge. I grew up to the sound of the Beatles and Dylan and the warnings from the Government on our black and white TV about what do if we had 4 minutes left before the first Russian atom bombs rained down. Something to do with kitchen tables and wet blankets, and nothing about how to avoid dying a virgin.
After school, where writing and rugby came easy, but nothing else [and certainly not the women], journalism was the obvious career choice. So I became a computer programmer for the RAF (it sounded sexier). A few steps later I'd resprayed myself as a management consultant working for a blue chip accountancy firm. I sustained the illusion long enough to be accepted as a minor guru in the banking industry. My firm, Price Waterhouse, even made me a partner.
But something inside was calling me back to my first love. When I found myself with a laptop and hours to kill on long haul flights, I began the internal journey that led to Truth Dare Kill and its sequel The Unquiet Heart. With the launch in early 2011 of the first 'Brodie' book - The Hanging Shed - I feel I've come home.
Thanks,
Gordon Ferris: email: gordonferris@gmail.com
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