Born into a blue-collar family in Liverpool, England, [b]Pete Barber[/b] missed The Beatles but did go to The Cavern a few times. He immigrated to the US in the early 90s and became a citizen. After twenty years in the corporate madhouse, Pete moved to Western North Carolina where he lives with a couple llamas, two spoiled dogs, a brace of cookie-eating goats, one ferocious cat, and a wonderful wife who thankfully understands his obsessive need to write fiction. Pete's debut thriller — [i]NanoStrike[/i] — has a 90+ 5-STAR reviews on Amazon US. [i]Love Poison[/i], a suspenseful romance was published September 2014.