He spent 25 years in Fleet Street before becoming an author and contributor to national newspapers. He has written more than 40 books, including best-sellers on crime and royalty. He and his partner Sue Blackhall, also an ex-Fleet Street writer, wrote the Top Ten expos Fall of the House of Windsor, which first revealed the so-called Squidgygate tape and the infidelity of both Princess Diana and Prince Charles. Their other factual subjects have included military history, celebrity scandals, and ghosts and the paranormal.