Joseph A. West was born and raised in Scotland. At nineteen years old, he became a police officer, but soon turned his love of writing into a career as a journalist, working for the Daily Mirror in London and the National Enquirer in the US, among others. Traveling the world in search of stories, West almost froze to death on an Alaska mountain, and a spider bite nearly killed him in the Amazon rainforest. Now a full-time novelist, West and his wife Emily reside in sunny Palm Beach, Florida. |