Peter Gray

Peter Gray is a Cockney baby boomer and went to the University of East Anglia and Durham University before emigrating to Australia in 1973. He has a PhD in engineering from Wollongong University in NSW, and spent most of his professional career working as a geotechnical engineer for the Broken Hill Proprietary Company - the largest resources company in the world - on a wide range of mining projects in Australia, USA and Mexico.

In 1998 he set up his own engineering consultancy business and has over thirty patents on new technologies including one for a product that is in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

Throughout his professional career, Peter has written countless technical reports where language was important, but the reports were mostly dry engineering text. He was an avid reader of thrillers and often thought that these reports could be turned into much more interesting thrillers. This sparked an interest in writing a novel, but it took a friend to finally convince him to do it (thank you, Lyn Moorhouse).

The result was Peter’s first thriller, Rough Cut – about a boy from South London, Charlie Robertson, being sent away to Australia in the war to escape Nazi bombing raids in 1940, but then discovering pink diamonds and overcoming great tragedy, corrupt banking conglomerates, South African killers and an ex-Stasi Colonel, to build a diamond empire. This was followed by the sequel, Brilliant Cut – where Charlie Robertson’s diamond business gets bigger but so do his enemies – and the latest book in the series, The President’s Cut – where Charlie’s daughter is kidnapped along with the daughter of the President of the United States.

Peter has also written three children’s books about dinosaurs, which he wrote for his grandchildren, but are yet to be published. He also lectures at Wollongong University to engineering students. He lives south of Sydney on the spectacular New South Wales coast.

For more details on the books, or you want to leave a comment for Peter, please visit: www.peteragray.com.au