The Soul-Catcher's Calling

This 82 year-old Scots-born author, coming from a family with military, scientific, and scholarly backgrounds, is a much-travelled and deeply-thinking person. As a musician he has broadcast both often as a soloist and from the orchestral platform. He holds degrees from three universities, in philosophy, literature, and law. As a lawyer he worked first in private practice, later as a parliamentary counsel, and has lectured in law schools for over 50 years. He has survived a few world wars, and has seen out the last days of the Soviet Empire while working in Minsk (Belarus) and the emergence of the new Russian Republic (and Commonwealth of Independent States) while living later in Moscow. With more than 200 often lengthy publications to his credit in more than seven countries, and in several languages, his authorship is already established. After a long and happy marriage, but widowed in later life, he has four children and eight grandchildren. Looking ahead, he walks wherever and whenever he can; and for the first time, with his newly-wedded wife, last year took up skiing. This is the first major book he has pursued to the point of publishing, but he has many more already written, and yet others in the offing. As a fully committed follower of Jesus Christ, he hopes to continue his calling to authorship by writing through his last treasured years in Dunedin, New Zealand- one of the world's UNESCO Cities of Literature.