My first book was Ark Royal, published in 2006. Before that, I made documentaries for television. I spent time in Beirut as a researcher during the Lebanese civil war. I remember sleeping in the bath in my room at the Commodore Hotel on some nights when the shelling was particularly fierce. What I saw in that city destroyed any illusions that war was glamorous.<br/><a href="http://www.mikerossiterwriter.com/">http://www.mikerossiterwriter.com/</a>