Peter J. Earle

Peter J. Earle was born in Gloucestershire, UK, grew up on a farm in the Transvaal, South Africa, and scraped through matric at Pretoria Boy's High School. He wrote his first adventure story at age nine, in which the two villains were brothers named Edward and Ted... He wrote while waiting in queues, he wrote lying on a torpedo during 'action stations' when in the South African Navy, he scribbled while supervising his work team as a fencing foreman. While still at school, in defiance of the new-death-penalty-for sabotage law of the Apartheid government, he tried to blow up the Afrikaans-medium school nearby. He was a Rhodesian customs officer on the Zambian border and spent three weeks in a Zambian prison. He has been a farm manager, an agricultural field technician, a concrete foreman, a construction surveyor and owned his own construction company. Owning a second-hand shop, he got an auctioneers's licence. He married and was blessed with a daughter. After 66 parachute jumps, he had to sell his 'rag' to pay the hospital bills at the birth of his son. He self-published his first two novels, 'Purgatory Road' and 'The Barros Pawns'in 2008/2009. In 2012, he added 'Hunter's Venom', the first in the Botswana CID detective Dice Modise series. The second in the series is 'Medicinal Purposes Only' and the third, 'Children Apart' will appear later in 2016. All are available in the Amazon's Kindle Shop. He lives in a cottage in the village of Haarlem, South Africa.