Softcover | 6 x 9in | 270 pages | ISBN 9781665585675 E-Book | 270 pages | ISBN 9781665585668 Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble About the Author Malcolm Lloyd Dubber is a scientist, specializing in explosives chemistry, CBRNe and emergency planning. He gained a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in Explosives Chemistry from the City University, London. He is a Chartered Scientist (CSci), Chartered Chemist (CChem), Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC), and a Fellow of the Emergency Planning Society (FEPS). He is a former U.K. Home Office Civil Defence Scientific advisor (stood down in 1992). He has the unusual combination of working with explosives and radioactive substances that led him to work at the U.K.'s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Aldermaston. He has worked as a local government emergency planning officer and has undertook the preparation of special emergency plans, such as Chernobyl, Ukraine. Although experienced in writing reports and plans, he has ventured into the world of writing fiction, mainly based on life-time experiences, characters encountered, places visited, and set against suitably fictionalized real scenarios. He has written technical articles for professional journals and lectured at the U.K. cabinet office's Emergency Planning College (EPC), Easingwold, and at international conferences, such as the International Disaster and Emergency Resilience (IDER) conference, where he was a committee member (2005-2012). His first novel, "Return to Malta," was set in WWII 1942 Malta.