Peter Graham is a young man who moved to Southend-on-Sea on the Essex coast in England to be with his girl-friend. However, things do not work out and they split up leaving Peter at a loose end with his life not seeing any future for himself. To make matters worse he hates Southend and longs to get away. Unfortunately, his pay as a shop assistant is sufficiently low that it will take him years to save up to get away. At first he distances himself from the local people but after getting to know some of them he quickly finds himself embroiled in a dark web of intrigue and blackmail.

Born in London England, I left school at the earliest opportunity for reasons I shall not go into and ended up doing a variety of different jobs including factory work, motorcycle messager, office work and van driving. My only real interest was in travel and to that extent I visited India twice, the USA several times and went on a tour of Europe on a motorcycle on 2 occasions.

I spent 8 years in California before moving to Tucson Arizona where I now live. I'm currently working as a real estate agent.