Born in Wembley but moved to Yorkshire at the age of 3. Attended Hull College of Advanced Technology where he studied Electronics. After qualifying moved back to London – worked for Decca and later the Ministry of Defence.

Pat’s first love is poetry. He started writing when he was 9 and has, since then, written a vast number of poems about hundreds of subjects. He’s been published in the USA/Canada and the UK. In 2000 was short-listed for a short drama competition run by Channel 4.
‘Who pays the Ferryman?’ came out of a chance encounter in a Kent pub with the mysterious Richard James who was to provide the author with the story of the novel. After numerous subsequent interviews and a further 2 years research the novel – an account of the real exploits of the IRA and British Intelligence is finally completed and published by Quill Publishing in 2003.

The story does not end. This is the first of a planned trilogy of novels, which exposes the real story of British Intelligence’s involvement in ‘The Troubles’…