Carlos Luxul

Living and working across the world in global logistics has provided a fascinating overview of geopolitics - who trades with whom, who has what, who needs what, who does what, and what drives it all. Everything has a profound effect: wars, politics, terror and security issues, piracy, freak weather, crop failure, and upheaval and strife of every colour. Experience of how the world ticks has helped me develop the plot of The Ocean Dove. Along the way I've met presidents and ministers, war criminals and cannibals, scrambled a country's navy and air force, and done business with the Bin Ladens - the entirely respectable multi-billion Saudi BinLaden Group, not the founder's wayward seventeenth son ...