About Nic Smurthwaite

Nic Smurthwaite is a novelist whose work explores the hidden intersections of power, history, and conscience. His Aldridge series — beginning with The Heir and Shadows — weaves together espionage, family legacy, and moral intrigue, moving effortlessly between the shadows of war and the complexities of the modern world.

Before turning to writing full-time, Nic spent nearly five decades in the IT industry as a project manager — long enough, he jokes, to qualify as an IT fossil. When he began his career, the computing power now tucked into a smartphone required an entire office floor. That same mix of innovation, adaptability, and quiet persistence finds its way into his fiction.