David O’Neil

David O’Neil is a photographer, artist, and thriller author who got his start with a series of Highland Guide books. Unlike many authors, O’Neil did not grow up loving books or dreaming of becoming an author as all he wanted to do was either sail a boat or fly an airplane. As a child, his home in London as bombed by the Nazi Luftwaffe an experience that has lived with him to this day. As a young adult, he joined the National Service, which is where he learned to fly and fulfilled his boyhood ambition. He later joined the Colonial Police in Malawi (then Nyasaland) and learned how to sailboats. He would work for eight years in Malawi before he went back home to the United Kingdom. In the UK, he settled in southern England and worked for more than two decades as a management consultant. He then shifted careers again and between 1980 and 1986 he was a tour guide in Scotland. David published his first guide book in 2007 having started writing in 2006. His professional debut as an author came in 2011 when he published “Fatal Meeting,” the first novel of the “Donny Weston-Abby Marshall” series. He now has more than twenty-five novels in the “Donny Weston-Abby Marshall,” “Counterestroke,” “Harry Ross,” and “Anton Chance” alongside several standalone novels.