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Blackmail About the author. This novel is written by Arthur Hailey.He is a bestsellers novelist. Born in?Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the?Royal Air Force?from the start of World War II during 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada. Haileys last novel,?Detective(1997), is a mystery told from the perspective of a Miami homicide detective. This detective also happens to be a former Catholic priest who has lost his religion; the work deals with themes of religion and questions the Catholic Church. Hailey told the Walden Book Report that his aim in writing this book was to share his own thoughts about religion without mak[ing] it a lecture. He says that he lost his own faith while serving in Cyprus during World War II, and that since ex-priests have many occupations he might as well give his protagonist an exciting one.After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956.Following the success of Hotel during 1965, he moved to California; in 1969, he moved to the?Bahamas?to avoid Canadian and U.S.?income taxes, which were claiming 90% of his income.His best sellers include:Hotel,Airport,Wheels,The Final Diagnosis and The Moneychangers. About the best sellers of author Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial setting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully researched information about the way that particular environment and system functions and how these affect society and its inhabitants. Critics often dismissed Haileys success as the result of a formulaic potboilera style, in which he caused an ordinary character to become involved in a crisis, then increased the suspense by switching among multiple related plot lines. However, he was so popular with readers that his books were almost guaranteed to become best-sellers. He would spend about one year researching a subject, followed by six months reviewing his notes and, finally, about 18 months wr