Michael Cary Anders

Michael Cary Anders has been a journalist for most of his adult life, working for more than 20 years for the French international news agency Agence France-Presse. He was a staff correspondent for several years in East Africa and Germany, when not working as a news editor in Paris.

    At university he studied chemistry, and he has also tried his hand at managing a rock group. Give him a chance and he'll sing you some of his favourite classic rock, blues or country tunes.

   'Agency' is his first major work of fiction, though he has also tried his hand at short stories, some of which can be found on his author website.

   London-born and -bred, Michael Anders has since 2002 lived in the South of France. He and his companion, stage actress Emmanuèle Stochl, have a long history of trade union and political activity.