Robert A. Kingsley is a Dutch - Canadian author who currently works and lives in Europe as an independent ICT consultant. Robert is married and has a son and a daughter, both talented professionals in their own right.
In September 2014, after several years of intensive research, he has published "The Odyssey", the first volume of "The Java Gold". This multi-part historical fiction story will take the reader all over the world and through half a century of recent history.
In this series Robert combines his life-long interest in aviation and military history (especially World War 2) with local, on-site knowledge he has gathered during his travels all over the world as an international ICT consultant.
The first two volumes of "The Java Gold" are largely set in the former Dutch East Indies. Not many books have been written about the turbulent post war years in that area and especially Indonesia. The Japanese invasion, the post-war struggle for independence and the general unrest in South East Asia serve as a fascinating background to the story.
The idea for the book was born during a "steak and beer" dinner in a California micro-brewery. Robert had just come across a number of highly intriguing facts and events that had happened in Indonesia during and after the 2nd world war.
'I could write a thriller around them' he said and one of his closest friends dared him to do so.
And he did...