 After a brief period as a barrister, he worked at "The Daily Telegraph" as a journalist from 1995 until 2001.In 2004, with Guy Walters, he edited "The Voice of War", an anthology of World War II memoirs, diaries and letters.In 2005, he published "A Serpent in Eden", an investigation of the unsolved murder in The Bahamas in 1943 of Sir Harry Oakes.