Born in London, he served in the RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently elected him a Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, ‘The Ipcress File’, which was published in 1962. He is now the author of more than thirty books of fiction and ... Read morenon-fiction. At present living in Europe, he has, over the years, lived with his family in ten different countries from Austria to Portugal. Show Less