In the highlands of northern Rwanda, the raid began just a few minutes. The crackling of fires die, and the only sounds that can be heard in the compound are of the occasional bird shrieking from the jungle and the crashing and screeching of the local monkey troop...

E. J. Hunter served in the British Army for twenty-five years, much of it with Airborne Forces. Upon leaving the military, he worked in the City of London for a short period before starting his own consultancy business. He retired early so that he could concentrate on his long-held passion for writing.

With his rich and eventful experiences in the army, Hunter had a wide array of things about which to write. He chose the setting of the refugee crisis in Rwanda and Eastern Zaire for his fiction novel 'Return to Rwanda'.