Michael Patrick Clark was born on The Fourth of July 1950. He spent the first few years of his life in an orphanage, before adoption brought a new home and a change of name. Unhappy at home, Michael joined the armed forces as a boy apprentice. He trained in telecommunications, and subsequently transferred to a specialist mobile-communications unit. Over the ensuing years he travelled the world; living and working in environments as exotic, hostile, and diverse as the Libyan Desert, Europe, the Australian outback, South-East Asia, and Central and South America. In the late seventies Michael moved into the high-tech industry. He worked predominantly on international consultancy, for North-East U.S. based technology manufacturers, but after twenty-five years, made the life-changing decision to leave the industry and move to Spain. Since then he has written and published three books: The Folks at Fifty-Eight, Flying with Cuckoos, (both also available from Amazon) and his second and latest espionage thriller: Hierarchies of Greed. If you’d like to get in touch with Mike visit his website at http: //www.michaelpatrickclark.com/ add him on Twitter: @mpclark77 / add him on Facebook: MichaelPatrickClar