Felix Francis is a British crime writer who is Dick Francis?s younger son. Felix studied Physics and Electronics at London University and then embarked upon a 17 year career teaching Advanced Level physics at three schools, the last seven as head of the science department at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire, before quitting to look after his father's affairs. He currently lives in Oxfordshire. From 1993 ? 2005 he was a director and deputy chairman of World Challenge Expeditions Ltd. He is a former governor of Winchester House Prep School, and is a governor of Malvern College. Felix remembers conversations around the Francis breakfast table being somewhat unconventional. ?The production of a Dick Francis novel has always been a mixture of inspiration, perspiration and teamwork. The first one was published when I was nine, and I grew up in a house where breakfast talk would be about the damage a bullet might do to a man?s guts rather than the more mundane topics of everyday life?, he says. Over the past 40 years Felix assisted Dick with both the research and the writing of many of his novels. [More at Wikipedia]