Fergus Bannon

Fergus Bannon writes fast paced thrillers which take a jaded and heretical view of what we think we know of science and technology.

Following graduation, he ran away to sea, his merchant shipping line taking him to some of the choicer trouble spots around the world. Rich though the seafaring life was, it could also be rather dangerous. After having a run-in with a death squad in South America (the basis of a key scene in his book 'Heretic'), and then nearly getting his throat slit in Jamaica, he began to harbour doubts about his long term prospects. A hurricane in the Atlantic, and a major fire on board ship in the Pacific, only reinforced this view.

Nursing an ambition to live until the age of forty, he therefore came ashore and eventually became a professor of physics. Fergus Bannon is a pen name used for his fiction, but he has also published a non-fiction book called 'Science for Heretics' and a fantasy thriller called 'The Tethered God' under his real name of Barrie Condon.