AN 85-YEAR-OLD grandfather has received critical acclaim for his latest thriller.
Donald Macpherson, from Haddington, has released his latest book The Nemesis Resolution.
The novel follows the fortunes of a colonel as his retirement in the Scottish Highlands is disturbed by his old nemesis, terrorist Dieter Schmidt.
Mr Macpherson said: "The Nemesis Resolution is a story of greed, political intrigue, revenge and the coming of age of a young woman discovering her father’s involvement in bringing an end to the world’s largest terrorist organisation – and ultimately getting involved herself."
The author, who was born just weeks before Britain declared war on Nazi Germany, has lived in Haddington for three and a half years after moving from the West Coast to be near his daughter and granddaughter.
He has released three collections of memoirs and also published another novel last year called An Unusual Forensic Accountant.
"I’ve also written another novel – I’m calling it The Optimist."
The grandfather spent his early years living a stone's throw from the Clydebank shipyards before being evacuated with his mother, two sisters and wider family to his ancestral home in the Scottish Highlands.
His first published memoirs recall his war years of sheltering beneath his bed and watching Spitfires shooting at German bombers through his bedroom window.
Following the untimely death of his police inspector father, Mr MacPherson, his mother and two sisters emigrated to Canada, where his adventures continued.
But the call of Scotland was too strong and brought Donald back across the Atlantic in 1972 with his Canadian wife to return to his ancestral home on the Isle of Seil.
It has taken retirement and a move to East Lothian for the grandfather to finally start creating fiction.
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