John was born in Southern Rhodesia, fought in the bush war and did journalism in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. He completed his articles to become a Chartered Accountant in Zimbabwe and lived in Salisbury/Harare throughout his youth in an exquisite family household, with a lovely garden and his cats. On the surface of a stereotypical existence and one that belies the vortex of lunacy and criminality, his life devolved into a monumental chaos before the grace of enlightenment in, of all places, the concrete jungle that is London. Therefrom his existence became four-dimensional and included widespread travel, romantic love, fatherhood - and this book.