Nik van den Bok was born in Prague (CZ), educated in England and by his 21st birthday had driven overland to India, and on to Australia. Returning to London he became an Advertising Executive in Fleet Street, before relocating to the Caribbean, where he ran a successful publishing organisation based in the Cayman Islands, with operations throughout the Caribbean Basin and Florida. After selling the company to a Canadian multinational he spent several years sailing the Caribbean Islands before being tempted back to international publishing, running companies in India and the Middle East. He currently lives overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Gold Coast of Australia.