Dangerous Times — Kevin Johnson

Born in Perth, Western Australia, during World War 2 to an English-born mother and a fourth-generation Sydney-based Engineer father. Kevin was introduced to flying at an incredibly early age, with his father teaching flying to recruits during

the war period. They resided in a close city above

average suburb where he was educated and

enjoyed a wide range of sporting activities, archery,

cricket, and baseball in which he represented the

State. His friends introduced him to car racing,

horse sports, and surf lifesaving so that by the age

he reached eighteen. He had acquired a very wide

education. This led him to a real estate occupation

where he experienced domestic building, valuation, and a wide field of property

sales, development, and consultancy. Kevin became the City Valuer of Perth,

then moved on to an agency partnership and remarkably high-value property,

industrial, city leasing, and sporting complexes, continuing to mines, towns, and

interstate commercial development. He was a court witness on many occasions

acting for Local, State, and Federal government agencies, and later towards

retirement, concluded with the assessment of major complexes for insurance

purposes. Along the way, Kevin was appointed President of the local progress

association, Captain initially, then President of a major golf club, President of

the Institute of Valuers WA division, the Australian Institute for several years,

Captain of a prestigious yacht club. He was appointed to several business boards

such as the land valuation tribunal, town planning, and compensation appeal

boards. On retirement, the computer talked. He began writing a fantasy trilogy,

something that had been buzzing around in his head, gradually expanding and

growing with newly discovered events since the time he was an adolescent.

That completed, he found it necessary to keep writing, and now on his seventh

book (the last three being crime thrillers), agrees he will keep writing till all his

days are done. He says the enjoyment he gains from writing is immense and just

hopes the readers on turning the final page, smile and say, ah! Yes! That was a

worthwhile experience.