Paul Mercer

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 as an Aircraft Engineer reaching the very desirable rank of Sergeant. Following ten years of wandering around Europe, picking up aviation work wherever he was able to find it, (Inspiration for ‘The German’ came from this very rich interlude in his life.) he came home to carry out restoration work on Vintage Aircraft, a job that he is still involved with today. It was during this time that he met his wife Diane, and now after twenty-one years of married life, has two children, a daughter of twenty, and a son of eleven years of age, who also aspires to write. He decided to give writing a go after reading several stories generated by Andy McNab, a man with a similar early history as himself. Although Paul is the first to admit his military background was not quite so daring as that of the SAS man. Paul has four novels published by ‘abook2read’, and is currently working on another three, two of which will be hopefully in print this year. He has recently teamed up with a caricaturist friend Gary Jamieson who has provided the superb drawings for ‘A Long and Winding Road’, and a soon to be finished book of short stories that are a must, if you, like me, enjoy reading lunchtime quickies.