Sam Hawksmoor started writing after careers that involved travel, photography and teaching. Add a smattering of gold prospecting in British Columbia and working in Africa, not to mention being a tour guide in America and Europe, finding stories was never going to be hard. His heart belongs to Vancouver, a city that is changing so fast the past is disappearing almost before it even happens. The 21st Century will be so different to the last, people will look back on our lives now and wonder how it was we could be so primitive. On the other hand...