About the Author

Gary's early years were spent at Mount Maunganui, at the age of two he lost his father and uncle in the Ranui sinking. His mother eventually remarried when he was nine and life became one new city and school after another as his new fathers work with civil aviation meant they would only settle in an area of New Zealand for a few years and then move elsewhere. In all Gary attended eight different schools in four cities which he found to be a huge disruption to his learning and consequently lost interest. After somehow managing to get his school certificate and also winning a scholarship in engineering he joined the air force and became an engine fitter, there he married which produced two daughters who both shared his passion for reading from an early stage and loved him reading to them each night. After a while they began to prefer stories he made up and through this he began to think about writing his own books. He began writing almost twenty years ago then his circumstances changed and he shelved it. Now residing in Australia he has decided to revisit some of the stories he never finished, this book is the first of them.