I have spent my life writing...
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After winning a story-writing competition in primary school, which brought me to the attention of my hometown newspaper, my first professionally published words were a series of children’s book reviews for the Reading Evening Post when I was 10 years old.
I went on to edit both the Reading School Magazine and Wessex News, the student newspaper of Southampton University, while continuing to work for the Evening Post during school and university holidays.
My first proper job was reporting for the Evening Argus, a daily newspaper based in Brighton on the south coast of England. Among many other roles at the Argus, I covered international aid efforts from the front line of the Bosnian War.
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Under the byline Bob Sherwood, my reporting has appeared in a range of British national newspapers and magazines, and I spent almost 15 years as a staff journalist for the Financial Times, where I was both Legal Correspondent and London Correspondent, covering issues of politics, policing, terrorism and security.
During my journalistic career, I have interviewed countless politicians of all levels, including prime ministers, police officers, solicitors, barristers, security agents, government officials and human rights experts, not to mention far too many celebrities and lots of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary news events.
The themes of law, power, politics, policing and security continue to inform my fiction writing. I am currently writing a series of action-filled international crime thrillers, featuring tough British former detective ‘Razor’ Burns and feisty American lawyer Leksi Lam.
I live in Kent with my wife, who has a proper job, two children and a growing assortment of animals.