John Jay is a for­mer man­ag­ing edi­tor at the Lon­don Sun­day Times and the author of one pre­vi­ous book pub­lished in Britain, Fac­ing Fear­ful Odds: My Father’s Sto­ry of Cap­tiv­i­ty, Escape and Resis­tance 1940 – 1945. Ninet­te’s War is his sec­ond book. John lives in England.