1Author's Note I didn’t travel to Colombia in early 2017 to write Ghost Order. The story didn’t yet exist in my mind but the way it came about dovetailed nicely with my journey at that time. In December 2016 I had given away or sold most of my possessions, given notice on my day job and with a vague plan to be a travelling nomadic writer for as long as possible, headed to the embarkation point of the Nomad Cruise in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. This would be a two-week kick-off party to a plan that was vaguely centred around finding a sun-kissed utopia to write books and possibly freelance on the side. The cruise itself was for Digital Nomads, a creative mix of mostly younger, smart Europeans who made it their business to travel the world and work online. That cruise opened my eyes to the

