A sales manager in the Canadian telecommunications industry, Neil spends much of his free time reading about cultural conflict and genocide. He has travelled to many of the Holocaust sites and has visited the genocide memorials in Rwanda. Neil currently resides in North Vancouver, Canada with his wife Wendy. Fear No One is Neil’s first book.

The notion came while I was reading Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. It struck me that I did not understand my grandfather's own concentration camp experience. I knew some of the stories and I had even read his short written history of what happened to him, but I did not know what the experience was like or how he survived. At first I thought that I would just go back and read the original story he wrote in 1946 and them ask him some questions, but the only copy was a faded and dutch copy translated by my parents on a typewriter, so I started writing it out on a computer so there would always be a digital copy.

The more I typed, the more questions I had that I wanted to ask my grandfather, questions like: How did the other prisoners behave? How did you respond to the guards? What survival mechanisms did you use? Given that my grandfather was already eighty-six years old, I decided to write a book that focused on the events but also the experience. In 2009 I approached my grandfather with the idea and he enthusiastically agreed to the concept and that is what started this all.

I traveled to my Grandfather's home in Coaldale Alberta with a list of questions and we talked for the next two days about his experiences, all of it being saved on a voice recorder. By the end of it, I had nine hours of useful information. Once I left Alberta I started researching the context of the time and the events that were described in his book, often reading through German and Dutch websites translated into English by Google Translate. I could have written the whole book in Canada without ever seeing the locations my grandfather was imprisoned in, but because I wanted to provide a whole picture, I decided to visit the locations. The next few weeks were spent driving around Europe visiting sites from his time in the camps and going to other historical sites as well.