According to author John Wilcox, an inability to do sums and a nascent talent to string words together steered him towards journalism – that and the desire to wear a trench coat, belted with a knot, just like Bogart. After a number of years working as a journalist, he was lured into industry. In the mid-nineties he sold his company in order to devote himself to his first love, writing. He has now published, to high acclaim, eleven Simon Fonthill books, one Fonthill short story, a WWI novel and two works of non-fiction, including an autobiography.www.johnwilcoxauthor.co.uk