Ears of The Wolf

Brian Viner

BRIAN VINER

Ever since his eventful childhood, part of which was spent between North London and Tyneside, dodging World War Two bombs and doodlebugs, Brian Viner has been drawn to adventure and excitement.

Wanderlust drove him to sail the world’s oceans soon after he left Tottenham Grammar School in the mid 1950s, then back on terra firma in the early 1960s he worked for the infant Cosworth Engineering, where he rubbed shoulders with the era’s now legendary racing car drivers. After a short but successful career in his own right as a competition car engine specialist, he took up new challenges in the 1970s in the north-west, including some years on the assembly of the British Aerospace 146 ‘whispering jet’ in Woodford, Cheshire.

Moving to Berkshire in the mid 1990s, his engineering skills were put to good use in a major nuclear weapons disassembly programme for the Atomic Weapons Establishment.

Retired now, he lives in Gloucestershire with his wife. He devotes much of his time to writing, motivated by a crusader’s passion for egalitarian democracy tempered with a desire to create thrilling, plausible fiction. For relaxation, he is as comfortable at his piano keyboard as when strolling the Cotswolds’ lanes.