Dennis Wheatley lived from 1897-1977. Invalided out of World War I he turned to the family wine business but when that hit hard times he began trying his hand at writing novels. Despite negative reviews about his first publication, ‘Three Inquisitive People’, he soldiered on to his second novel, ‘The Forbidden Territory’. It was the beginning of an extraordinarily successful career as a writer, something demonstrated by the fact that in the 1960’s his books sold 1,000,000 copies in the UK alone. - [Information extracted from www.denniswheatley.info/denniswheatley.htm] He was a masterful author ...
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