Wentworth M Johnson

Bill Reyner Mystery Adventures


Q? What is your philosophy of writing?
WMJ: Simply good honest believable stories. Reality encapsulated in a fictional scenario.
Q? What’s the name and genre of your first Bill Reyner book?
WMJ: The title is Fiend’s Gold and the genre is Mystery Adventure.

Welcome to a World of Mystery, Adventure and Mayhem

They do say, “A man is the sum of his experiences.” It’s difficult to write about something if it is purely imagination. Sometimes reality is totally different to what you would think. In the mid 1960’s I went to East Africa – my vision of Africa was what I had seen in the Tarzan movies. I expected everyone to live in grass huts, and there would be jungle and wild animals everywhere, and of course it would be stinking hot. Hmm! We landed at Embakasi Airport, a very modern place with no grass huts, now it is known as Kenyatta International. Nairobi is on a hilly plane just above the Rift Valley. The scenery is breathtakingly beautiful – vast open spaces with occasional trees or thorn bushes. The temperature hovers around 70° F or around 20° C – all day every day.