Simon Petherick is the author of four novels -- The Last Good Man, The Damnation Of Peter Pan, English Arcadia and Like Fire Unbound -- as well as a number of non-fiction titles and several filmscripts. He originally worked in London as a government writer at the UK's Central Office of Information and subsequently worked in both Europe and the Baltic States as a communications specialist. He has spent time in the United States, particularly in the southwestern states of Arizona and California. He currently lives in London.