About the Author

Austin Charles Earley was born in England in 1979 to an unconventional life.

Austin's parents separated when he was a toddler. His mother remarried into an American Irish/Russian Jewish family. Three years of his childhood were spent in New Jersey, US and were not dissimilar to those of the main characters in the TV show Stranger Things.

Returning to the UK, a mostly uninvolved single mother considered work to be the curse of the drinking class. A welfare upbringing exposed him to confidence tricksters, drug dealers, criminals, reprobates and the art of deception.

He exchanged written correspondence during his father's various incarcerations. When Austin was 18, his father passed after years of enjoying ‘all of the drugs’.

Life guidance, expectations and rules to navigate conventional society were not easily forthcoming.

However, his reality embedded an irrepressible drive to succeed outside of crime and the dependency trap of government benefits. He inherited a high intellect and with shorter synapses than most, academia was easy.

Austin graduated with a Masters Degree in Chemistry from the University of Manchester and passed up the offer of a funded PhD in zeolite membranes.

He intermittently consulted for global investment banks, later passed a Chartered Financial Analyst exam, eventually specialising in derivatives, then anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing.

On various sabbaticals he has explored 120+ and lived in 15+ countries attending Spanish, Chinese & Japanese language school along the way.

He was married to a wonderful woman from Azerbaijan for a number of years.

The loves of his life are surfing, music, reading, comedy, friends and modern board games.

The author has not (yet!) been homeless, absurdly rich or in a war zone though a diverse life experience enables him to relate to the world and its people more than most.

After visiting much of the developing world, the extraordinary specialness of Western civilisation and the free world became even more apparent.

With extreme luck and gratitude, he benefited from being born into a system that is an historical anomaly. His wish is for everyone to eventually have at least the same opportunities, freedoms and chance at contentment he was afforded.

He views the 100 million member Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the greatest threat to both the anomaly & the wish.

Hopefully his The CCP vs America & The Free World book series will expose how and why engagement with the CCP has made free societies more like them, not the other way around, and remind us of what unites the free world — and why we must defend it.