The Truth is NOT out there

Fergus Bannon is the pen name and alter ego of a scientist who has become heretical about everything we think we know of the universe. He explores these concerns in his fast paced thrillers Heretic and Leviathan’s Fall. 

Many years ago and following graduation he ran away to sea, his merchant shipping line taking him to some of the choicer trouble spots around the world. Rich though the seafaring life was, it could also be rather dangerous. After having a run-in with a death squad in South America, and then nearly getting his throat slit in Jamaica, he began to harbour doubts about his long term prospects. A hurricane in the Atlantic, and a major fire on board ship in the Pacific, only reinforced this view.

Nursing an ambition to live until the age of forty, he therefore came ashore and eventually became a Professor of Clinical Physics. He now lives in Glasgow with his wife and two daughters.

He still travels extensively and has recently returned from a paranormal investigation tour (no, he doesn’t believe in that either) of South America with a famous psychic. This will be the basis of another thriller called Life and Other Shadows to be published in 2017. He has also written a non-fiction book Science for Heretics (under his real name of Barrie Condon) that seeks to show how profoundly hollow our understanding of just about everything actually is.