Alex Gerlis was a BBC journalist for over 25 years. He left in 2011 and is now a freelance writer, journalist, and media consultant. His first novel, The Best Of Our Spies, is an espionage thriller based around real events in the Second World War. It was published in 2012 by CB Creative Books with the help of whitefox.

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Anna Morrison is a book cover designer who has spent several years as an in-house designer in some of the biggest publishing houses, including HarperCollins and Random House. She has been freelance now for three years.

There was, so I am told, a time when a set of leather elbow patches…