David Longridge

David Longridge is a writer with a wealth of experience and success in the real world. After school he worked for, and became, Chief Executive of Avis International, then second largest car rental company globally. That was followed by a long stint in investment banking in the City of London. On retirement, he decided to release his creativity by writing books that were fictional, but in an historical setting of a period he loved. David lived and worked in Paris and Brussels in the 1960's, including assignments to Algiers and the Sahara and later, Kenya and South Africa. "Barricade" is his fifth novel, in which he has woven his story around the real facts of what happened in Congo following its independence in 1960. David has a strong interest in post-colonial political and military history, this being the foundation for the last three of the five novels he has written to date. He works from his home in Malmesbury, England, with his wife Anna who is a practising artist.