About the Author – John Arthur Cooper.

I have just had a birthday and according to my twelve year old daughter – I know nothing. She is probably right. There comes a time when very little shocks or amazes you, when you run out of ‘WOWS’ and if you are a man you become Victor Meldrew, replaced by a small black box.

I have found that I have become less of a participant more of an observer, hence this blog.

I have lived the last thirteen years of my life in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam. I am grateful that I can zip around this incredible, chaotic, dynamic city on my Yamaha 155cc Variable Valve Action scooter, smell it, taste it and be constantly tested and stimulated by it. Swim in a large tropical pool most days and write my books in coffee shops when it’s raining.

To date my books and stories include:-

Subject To Status / + sequel – Black Nothing / The Ten Bob Notes / + sequel – When Jonny Comes Marching Home / In My White Room (With black curtains near the station), The Story Book / Smoke from the Barrel / The Great Pretender / Chrysanthemum Ben / New Horizon / The Magic Phone / ‘Counting On It’ / The Great Escape / The Saigon Connection + sequel – Blight. The Garage and The Window PLUS a series of children’s books about an Ant called Alfred and his chums. They are all available on Amazon Ebooks/Kindle and paperback.

My previous incarnations include The Royal Navy (Fleet Air Arm), an Oil Company, West Mercia Police and ‘lifebuoy’ a drugs charity.

I have grown up family in UK and Canada. I live in an apartment block which unfortunately is under the flight path of Tan Son Nhat Airport, notorious for being the busiest airfield in the world during the Vietnam war. A war which here is almost forgotten.

John.

PS. Heroes:-

Robin McLaurin Williams 1951 – 2014.

David Robert Jones 1947 -2016

Farrokh Bulsara 1946 – 1991

Thomas Edward Lawrence 1888 -1935

Gertrude Bell 1868 -1926

Roderick James Nugent Stewart 1973 –