Christopher C Tubbs is a dog-loving descendent of a long line of Dorset clay miners and has chased his family tree back to the 16th century on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset England. He left school at sixteen to train as an Avionics Craftsman after which he worked in the Aerospace industry for 15 years. In 1989 he was one of the founders of a successful games company which took up the next ten years of his life after which he worked in the safety critical and high security software industry in marketing. Chris was also a public speaker at conferences all over the world talking about safety and security. Now in his sixties, he has retired from the day job and writes full-time.