I have been in love with words ever since I realised, at age three, that those squiggles on the page actually meant something. Usually they meant something financial, as my father would listen to me reading only if I chose an extract from the "Financial Times". I edited the school newspaper (is here the place to confess that I was also the author of the section giving all the gossip on who was going out with whom?), did lots more reading and writing at university (where, of course, I studied English), and now write a weekly column for the local newspaper and a monthly article for the local magazine.
I run my own anti-money laundering consultancy, and this gives me plenty of opportunity to write a great deal about my very favourite subject: money laundering. I write a monthly column for trade paper "Money Laundering Bulletin"; I write handbooks to help Money Laundering Reporting Officers; I write policies and procedures for clients; and now I write ongoing adventures for a fictional MLRO called Edward Jones. You may see a theme developing.
