Jamie Blackett was educated at Ludgrove, Eton, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and later Warwick Business School (MBA). After working in South Africa he joined the Coldstream Guards, serving in Northern Ireland, the First Gulf War, Hong Kong, the Falkland Islands, Zimbabwe, and Germany. He returned to his roots in Galloway where he is now a farmer, forester, bed and breakfast and holiday cottage host, gardener and odd job man, and occasional freelance journalist writing on farming and the countryside. He is the author of The Enigma of Kidson.