A former professional rugby player, army officer, schoolteacher, and practicing psychologist who is now a tutor in psychology in the adult education program of the University of Cambridge, Anthony Storey is also--and primarily--a novelist deeply committed to exploring and reviving the latent aspects of the human spirit. So far, his novels have not won either the popular or the professional readership they deserve; Storey refuses to play the fashionable games in which some of his contemporaries indulge, and he remains a very private person, like his brother David, although a very different sort of writer in many respects. While for many years he entertained the idea of writing a novel, he did not do so until relatively recently, but since Jesus Iscariot was published in 1967 he has written seven more novels, a biography, and several screenplays.

Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, on 10 November 1928, Anthony was the second of four...