Steven J Howard was born in Rotherham in 1966, his parents worked full time and as a child was raised with help from his grandparents aunties and uncles, in Rotherham and Parkgate, South Yorkshire,...view moreSteven J Howard was born in Rotherham in 1966, his parents worked full time and as a child was raised with help from his grandparents aunties and uncles, in Rotherham and Parkgate, South Yorkshire, England, where he was the town dare devil, stunting, racing buses on his skateboard down Rawmarsh Hill and jumping bikes over his friends who lay on the ground as cannon fodder if the bike jump went wrong. Later, street racing for cash, his nickname earned The Wod mirroring this later as a Paramedic they called him The Fly for his unsurpassed response times. He studied Mining and Mineral Engineering at Sheffield Polytechnic and Leeds University. Employed as Sales Director for a Doncaster Engineering company he travelled the globe before been laid off in the great recession of 1990, he then served on the frontline as a Paramedic leaving after fifteen years starting his own limited company, HART UK Ltd, providing Confined Space Rescue and Rescue from Height to Blue-chip companies such as TATA Steel and Scottish Power, he retired as CEO of the company in 2011 to be with his daughter Lily Mae. In 2010 he lost his mother to Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and in 2016 lost his father to stomach Cancer. His parents were his inspiration, and he looked after his dad for twelve months until he sadly lost the battle, hence the subject of this first hopefully best-selling fictional thriller adventure novel, there is plenty of ink left in Stevens pen and he looks forward to you reading his next roller coaster that you simply cannot get off.view less