Don (DJ) has extensive experience working with ex-offenders and homeless people. This started him writing as he wrote bespoke stories for non-readers. He moved into consultancy and training, writing management books and articles in journals. Growing up on Air Force bases developed interests in espionage, as did reading thrillers--Holmes as a boy, Bond as a teenager and finally Le Carré. His own fiction focuses on the 1940s-60s. He used to sail but now he paints seascapes and landscapes.