Paul Mercer has spent most of his adult life working with aeroplanes. Firstly he served twelve years as a member of the Royal Air force reaching the very desirable rank of Sergeant. This was followed by ten years of wandering around Europe, picking up aviation work wherever he was able to find it. Three years after returning home to England to carry out restoration work on vintage aircraft, a job that he still does today, he met and married his wife Diane. Today at the grand young age of 66 he has two children, a daughter of nineteen, and a son of ten years of age, coming on sixteen.
He decided to give writing a try after reading several stories generated by Andy McNab, a man with a similar early history as himself; although Paul is first to admit that his military background was not quite as daring as that of the SAS man.
At the time of going to press, Paul has one other published book ‘The Crescent Conspiracy,’ and three more novels in various stages of completion, several short stories, including a short Auto Biography of his first eight weeks as a boy soldier in 1958, and the longest poem ever written.