Nick Brazil was born in Looe, Cornwall. He is an author, film maker and photographer who has lived and travelled extensivley in Africa, the Americas and the Middle East. In 1991, he spent three weeks in Albania with an aid agency at the time the country was changing from communist dictatorship to democracy. He describes this time as a scary journey through a state of anarchy that also involved encounters with secret police wielding Kalashnikovs. Since 1999, Nick has published five books including "A Journey With Ghosts" that has become a classic in supernatural investigation and "Billy Biscuit- The Colourful Life and Times of Sir William Curtis which is the story of the man who coined he phrase "The Three Rs". His latest book is "The War of The Stray Dog" which is a history of some of the world's strangest and least known wars. He is divorced and lives in Oxfordshire, England.