Dangerous Times

Born in Perth, Western Australia, during World War 2 to an English-born mother and a fourth-generation Sydney-based Engineer father. Kevin was introduced to flying at an incredibly early age, with his father teaching flying to recruits duringthe war period. They resided in a close city aboveaverage suburb where he was educated andenjoyed a wide range of sporting activities, archery,cricket, and baseball in which he represented theState. His friends introduced him to car racing,horse sports, and surf lifesaving so that by the agehe reached eighteen. He had acquired a very wideeducation. This led him to a real estate occupationwhere he experienced domestic building, valuation, and a wide field of propertysales, development, and consultancy. Kevin became the City Valuer of Perth,then moved on to an agency partnership and remarkably high-value property,industrial, city leasing, and sporting complexes, continuing to mines, towns, andinterstate commercial development. He was a court witness on many occasionsacting for Local, State, and Federal government agencies, and later towardsretirement, concluded with the assessment of major complexes for insurancepurposes. Along the way, Kevin was appointed President of the local progressassociation, Captain initially, then President of a major golf club, President ofthe Institute of Valuers WA division, the Australian Institute for several years,Captain of a prestigious yacht club. He was appointed to several business boardssuch as the land valuation tribunal, town planning, and compensation appealboards. On retirement, the computer talked. He began writing a fantasy trilogy,something that had been buzzing around in his head, gradually expanding andgrowing with newly discovered events since the time he was an adolescent.That completed, he found it necessary to keep writing, and now on his seventhbook (the last three being crime thrillers), agrees he will keep writing till all hisdays are done. He says the enjoyment he gains from writing is immense and justhopes the readers on turning the final page, smile and say, ah! Yes! That was aworthwhile experience.