Charlie Charters is a former rugby union official and sports marketing executive turned thriller writer whose debut book Bolt Action will be published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2010 [1]. Charters was raised in Fiji where his mother was making a documentary film and met his father, a tobacco farmer. He is the son-in-law of well-known Fijian businesswoman and deposed Member of Parliament Mere Samisoni. He and his wife Vanessa divide their time between a house near Barton-le-Willows, North Yorkshire, and Suva, Fiji.