Guess what? She finds evidence from a file that a patient, when recovered, will be moving into intelligence work: incredible. A nurse, well, probably trip over them on a daily basis. Clever them German's they'll be secrets to be found wherever you turn 'in a hospital'. Nazi intelligence decide to send one of their secret agents to Britain: she's a trained nurse, so they order her to find work in a military hospital. The list is endless: and this is a topper: "They must have put him on reduced rations because there was hardly anything to eat." The writing is dreadful - for a former journalist it is beyond the pale. "Proof read the manuscript before you hork it." The publisher might have bothered, but then again being pally with the author and knowing he is a former journalist most likely thought, "Ahh, no need, let's all go for a beer." I must surmise the five star reviews are from friends and former journalist colleagues: none of whom took the time to read the book and offer the author, a former journalist, some advice. It took an age to read this: it spent almost all of it's time prior to being handed to the charity shop on the floor beside the fire. He is married with two daughters and lives in west London. He has also worked for the BBC throughout Europe, the United States, the Middle East and in China, and from 2005 to March 2011 was Head of Training at the BBC College of Journalism – the body in charge of the training of the corporation's 7,500 journalists.Īlex's first novel was inspired by his work covering the 50th anniversary of D-Day from Normandy. In September 2001 he was one of the BBC Newsroom team covering the attack on the Twin Towers.
In August 1998 he was the BBC TV News duty editor on the day of the Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the coverage of which later won a Royal Television Society award. He has also edited Breakfast News, the One o'Clock News, the Six o'Clock News and the Weekend News for the BBC. Over the next twenty years he worked on a number of BBC News and Current Affairs programmes, including making documentaries for The Money Programme and election programmes with David Dimbleby and Jeremy Paxman. He graduated with a degree in Law and Politics from Hull University in 1977 and, after working as a political researcher and journalist, joined the BBC in 1983 as a researcher on Panorama.
Alex Gerlis was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in 1955.
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