Anthony Galvin trained as a physicist before working for a decade as a crime journalist for a daily paper in Europe's toughest city. Now he travels the world performing magic, ventriloquism and hypnotism.
He has worked as a hotel manager, radio presenter, Arctic skidoo driver, and many other jobs. He briefly held the world record for the longest public lecture (at sixty two hours) and spends every winter in the Arctic.
In his spare time he enjoys martial arts, hill-walking, and competitive public speaking.
He writes factual books under his own name, and fiction under a variety of pen names, including Jim Gallows and Dean Carson.