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David W Stokes

David W Stokes has worked as a broadcast journalist for many years, for Independent Radio News on both Downtown Radio and Cool FM, covering all the major ‘Troubles’ stories from Northern Ireland, including the IRA Hunger Strikes, The Maze Prison break-out, The Poppy Day bombing in Enniskillen and the Omagh Bomb atrocity.

He has have interviewed a whole range of people – from Ian Paisley, Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams to Margaret Thatcher, Chris Patton and the late Mo Mowlam.

He won a Sony Award for his radio coverage of the then US President Bill Clinton’s historic visit to Northern Ireland.

Currently, he is Group Editor at 4Square Media, a highly respected and long established publishing company based in Hillsborough, County Down, where they produce a series of trade and business-to-business magazines, including Export & Freight, Sustainable Ireland and Plant & Civil Engineer. "Not quite as exciting as my previous day job, but at least it allows me time to devote to my first love: thriller writing," he says.

He has travelled abroad extensively and, as you will appreciate if you pick up a copy of his latest novel, The Icelander, published by David James Publishing and available as an eBook and in Paperback on Amazon.com, one of his favourite European cities is Venice in Italy.

His back catalogue includes ‘The Franchise Affair,’ ‘Nightingales’ ’The Provo Link’ and ‘The Strasbourg Connection,’ the latter two penned under the name David Hayward.

For more information, log on to www.davidwstokes.com