SGM Ashcroft
SGM Ashcroft was born in 1963 in High Wycombe.
He has been a journalist since 1987, working on local and national newspapers, before an 18-month stint in Beijing in the early 90s as a copy editor on the China Daily.
After a spell in corp comms, he moved into computer magazines, and then on to the BBC. He has been freelance since 2005.
Hack is his debut novel, with a second in the series due out in mid-2021.
He lives with his family in West London.
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