About the Author
Son of a Scottish mother and Yorkshire father,
David
Eric
Crossley was raised in Yorkshire. After a number of unsatisfying jobs, he joined the forces in 1970
and
was a soldier for over 20 years.
Qualified as an
instructor in Nuclear Biological and Chemical Warfare, Combat Survival, Weapons,
Tactics, Urban and Counter-revolutionary Warfare,
Explosives, Advanced First
Aid, Light Rescue and Firefighting, among other things, and a trained sniper and
forward observation officer, he served in
Africa,
Asia,
the Gulf, Central and
South America
and
Europe.
He has experienced the reality and aftermath of war
and
served in aid to the civil powers operations after two major floods, a hurricane
and an earthquake.
After leaving the forces, David settled in Scotland. He has worked as a training consultant, was Training Manager Scotland for the British Red Cross for 4 years including training overseas service and emergency response volunteers, ran his own training company and worked as a trainer and business analyst for Glasgow City Council. He now lives in central Scotland with his partner, Patricia, and works as an IT (SAP) consultant, but still has a cottage in Moray, where most of the action in There Falls No Shadow takes place.
David has been writing professionally since the 1980s and has had over 50 magazine articles and short stories published in outdoors, survival, military, business and general interest magazines. There Falls No Shadow is his first novel.
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