John Fitzgerald Barker is a retired newspaper executive who still maintains his blog guelphspeaks.ca and writes regularly in the Guelph (ON) Daily Mercury. He is an active investor and appreciates an extra dry Martini on occasion. Perversity is his first novel and he recently completed an e-book on teaching children how to earn and manage money. He and his wife Barbara spend the winters in their Florida home and summers in Canada.