Jurgens Hanekom was born in July 4, 1953 in the Cape Colony, in what is now the Western Cape of South Africa.

Restricted from wandering by his grandparents, where he lived after his mother died – he found comfort in books; devoured them, especially the adventure ones. With each venture into the world of imagination, more aware of the magnificent environment surrounding him, the wildlife, the plains, the bush veldt, the unfettered freedom to roam the country he loved so much.

However, nothing spectacular happened in his young life. He grew up and joined the military. Spent the better part of his grown-up life in Angola where knowledge of the bush and its peoples helped him survive a social madness that drove peoples apart.

With the return of peace to the region, he headed south; ended up in Cape Town, where acting on advice from a friend in the military, he started a building / civil engineering venture; even found time to get married.

Always dabbled in writing, but only when he moved to the UK did the latent writing bug came to the fore. Using past experience he started writing fiction in his unique South African style. Striving to make them his own, he immersed himself in the lives and setting of his characters, making them and their surroundings come vividly alive.