John has delivered medical aid to orphanages and hospitals across the globe, including Romania during the revolution, across South America, Bosnia during the war and now into the Ukraine. His Rogues novels are based on the characters he encountered during his many dangerous missions, when he enlisted unlikely support from those he calls “benevolent rogues”. These men and women used their wit and guile to deliver medical aid into areas that charities dare not enter.
He has written The Rogues Trilogy, a rousing adventure set in the two years leading up to the Second World War, which starts with Churchill's Rogue, followed by The Gathering Storm and The Darkest Hour. John followed this with his 1960s epic adventure, The Lochran Trilogy: Churchill’s Assassin, The Last Rogue, and The Alpha Wolves, based on an assassination attempt on Sir Winston Churchill – a man who the world knows is dying. John wrote the 1990s based the Lenka Trilogy thrillers, Heartbreak, Resilience and Reflection, which are centred on a young schoolteacher who volunteers to deliver aid to children’s orphanages in Romania and later to Bosnia during the war, and who finds herself in the company of rogues and the target of mercenaries. His latest novel, The Englander, is a stand-alone spinoff from the Lenka Trilogy.
John has also written a short, humorous play, The ‘Pane’ of Rejection, based on a fictitious interview between a wry author and an acerbic critic.
In 2016, Churchill's Rogue was shortlisted for the inaugural Wilbur Smith adventure writing awards. In 2020, Resilience won the US Readers’ Favorite 5-star award, and Heartbreak won the Page Turner Spectrum Publications Award. In 2023, The Englander was a finalist in the Nashville Killer Awards.
John has worked in over forty occupations, ranging from a gravedigger, a cocktail barman, and a tree-surgeon, to a professional poker player, and is currently employed as a government “Transactor” covering major infrastructure programmes across the country. His adventures continue – he has ridden a British Army motorbike across India to support several children’s charities and has worked in a mental health facility in Manhattan.
