Paul GracePaul Grace has a BA (Hons) in English from Curtin University and 20 years of experience as a bookseller and broadcaster in community radio in Perth, Western Australia. Operation Hurricane: The story of Britain's first atomic test and the legacy tht remains is his first book. Grace's reason for writing it is personal: his late grandfather, Flight Lieutenant Ron Grace RAAF, was a pilot who flew security patrols around the Montebello Islands before the test and 'coastal monitoring sorties' (looking for fallout on the mainland) afterwards. When Grace began researching his grandfather's role, he found that there were no full-length histories of Operation Hurricane written from an Australian perspective, while British accounts downplayed the dangers of radiation and excluded Australian participants. Eventually, it became clear that if he wanted to read an Australian book about Operation Hurricane, he would have to write it himself. Read More Read Less