CAMPBELL ARMSTRONG

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Campbell Armstrong got a degree in philosophy before taking a position teaching creating writing at the State University of New York. After a few years, he moved to Arizona where he got a similar teaching job at Arizona State University. He continued this career for a years although, according to his website, he disliked teaching so, after his first couple books were published, he quit to write full-time. After his excellent series about counterterrorism expert Frank Pagan, Mr. Armstrong has written several compelling novels of crime and life in his native Glasgow. He eventually moved back to Europe after over two decades in the States, settling in Ireland and living in a house said to be haunted.