Dean De Servienti was born in Italy in 1961. A journalist and an independent film producer, his travel documentaries have been broadcast on more than twenty television stations around the world. De Servienti, who has been traveling the world since the age of seventeen, spent several years in Western Africa in his early twenties, growing familiar with both the territory and its people; he has also worked with NGOs based in Central and South America. Since 2009, he has focused on writing novels that draw on his extensive travel experience for inspiration. Quantum is the first in a three-book series; the second and third titles in the trilogy, will both be available in English in 2021/22.