I was born in India, the youngest of five sons. My father, working for the Military Engineering Service was constantly transferred to various locations around the country, leading to me being constantly on the move, picking up several languages, cultures, not being rooted to any one ethos and finding it easy to settle into my adopted country, Kenya, where I have been living for four decades now. The moving also ensured I read only in English Medium schools, where the school library with additional titles from the British Council and the United States Information Services (USIS) helped read extensively and helped create a world view from a very young age.

I majored in English Language & Literature with American Literature as an additional option. So, in addition to English masters like Geoffrey Chaucer and John Milton, I also studied classical American writers like Walt Whitman, T.S.Elliot, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Pearl S Buck, Nathaniel Hawthorne among others. In 1981 when I got my first job as an Advertisement representative of a magazine, I did not want to sell ad’s and asked the Editor to give me a chance to write articles and not pay me if it was not good. Of course, I was published and went on to work a year there. One day while browsing through some old newspapers, I came across an advert seeking for teachers in East Africa. Africa excited me. I knew I had to go. i went for the interview, was hired and in 1983, I left the shores of India and landed in Kenya, where I have resided ever since.

I settled into my new country and life and taught English Language & literature for some years, then switched careers to join various Kenyan, British and American companies as Administrator, Marketing Manager, General Manger and Group Chief Operating Officer. During this period, I traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, America, Africa, Singapore and Australia. I have lived in America for year in Texas and Chicago. I also own my own company supplying German packaging products across Africa. During this period, I continued writing and has published several articles for a Kenyan magazine ‘The Executive’. I was stuck inside the Westgate Mall in Kenya, when it was attacked by Al Shabab terrorists. i went on to write about my experience in a local newspaper. My first book 'Murder in Heaven' was published by Locksley Hall Publishing, New Delhi. 'The Last Crusade' is my second book. I am now working on my third book, 'Death in the Jungle', about the murder of an environmental activist in the Honduras.

I am married to Anita and have three children, Reggie, Samantha and Richie