
Alan John was born in Kuala Lumpur in 1953 and attended St John’s Institution and the University of Malaya before starting as a reporter at The New Straits Times in 1976. He moved to Singapore in 1980 and spent the next 35 years at The Straits Times. He headed various parts of Singapore’s main English-language daily before becoming deputy editor, the position he held when he left in 2015. He is married with two children. This is his second book. Unholy Trinity, which appeared in 1989, retold the sensational case of the Adrian Lim child killings that gripped Singapore in the early 1980s.