Douglas Schofield was raised and educated in British Columbia, where he earned degrees in History and Law. Over the next four decades, he worked as a trial lawyer in Canada, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. During those years, he prosecuted and defended hundreds of cases of serious crimes, and at one point held the position of Assistant Solicitor General in the Cayman Islands Government.

Although Douglas dabbled in creative writing for many years, Flight Risks was his first novel, published while he was fully engaged in his legal career. Enthusiastic reader feedback clearly justified the publisher’s initial reaction. A January 2011 review in Victoria Times-Colonist, a leading daily newspaper in Western Canada, described Flight Risks as:

“…a fast-paced snappy thriller … utterly believable … The resolution, while something of a surprise, is absolutely satisfying”

Over the years since then, Douglas has published five more novels and one well-received work of non-fiction. The latter, Giovanni’s Ring – My Life Inside The Real Sopranos, was the result of his collaboration with Giovanni Rocco, a former FBI undercover officer who infiltrated the New Jersey crime family known to law enforcement as “the true Sopranos.”

Which brings us to Douglas Schofield’s most recent novel.

The Last Viracocha, was released in December, 2024, and it is very much a different story. Its science-fiction / alien-contact premise is a significant departure of genre from his previous work. But The Last Viracocha is one he felt driven to write due to the currently calamitous state of our planet.