David was born in Derby, England in 1961 and now lives in France where his partner John has been based for many years. For almost twenty-five years he worked as cabin crew for British Airways and has always been politically active in the Labour party. He’s now concentrating on his writing career. As well as ‘The Wild Heart’ he’s also written another stand alone crime thriller called ‘Gypsy’ which is also available on kindle. In addition, he’s created a series of detective novels featuring the fictional Manchester DCI, Sara Hoyland. The first two, ‘Fall from Grace’ and ‘Beautiful Child’ are published by Empire of Manchester and are available on kindle and other ebook formats. He’s working on the third in the series ‘Outside the Rain’ which is due out in summer 2012. www.davidmenon.com www.facebook.com/davidmenon www.twitter@ifanyonefalls www.facebook/sarahoyland www.goodreads.com/davidmenon www.empire-uk.com Copyright David Menon 2012 All rights held by the author This is a work of fiction.