David J. Hirst is the author of nine management books including the Best-Selling ‘How to Communicate with Anyone.’ He was born in England and has degrees from the University of Stafford and Christ Church College, the University of Kent. He currently lives in Malaysia which, after twenty-three years, he calls home. He has a 10 th degree Sifu licence in Malaysian Wing Chun and a Master Practitioner Licence in Neuro-semantics which allows him insights into human behaviour that give his characters their vibrancy. He regularly attends the MY Writers Penang group and on most stormy afternoons he can be found on his Penang balcony with a chilled glass of something nice, working on his next novel.