ADRIAN DE HOOG was educated in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Oxford, and spent 30 working as a Canadian diplomat in countries as varied as Kenya and Germany.

His first novel, The Berlin Assignment, published in 2006, was a tale of political intrigue with German re-unification providing the backdrop.

The scope of his second novel, Borderless Deceit, is more international still. As a virus destroys the communication network of the Canadian diplomatic service, the intrigue spills effortlessly across borders; individual privacy is in short supply.

In his third novel, Natalia's Peace, forces pushing for a more enlightened world order are pitted against ones that profit from armed conflict, as the novel examines what the international community could do to end senseless killing.

Adrian de Hoog lives in Ottawa.