Ed Perkins has worked as a journalist in London, Manchester, Southampton, Weymouth and Bournemouth. His other jobs have included working at a city press office and at an ape rescue centre. Born in London, he now lives in Poole, Dorset.
'A model of assiduous research. No stone left unturned to reach the truth about a squalid, but not unimportant, case of wartime treachery and disloyalty, mixed in with very human frailty and tragic misjudgement.' -- Nigel West