Terence Sisson lived in Nottingham, England. An innkeeper's son, he volunteered for service with the Royal Navy's elite Fleet Air Arm at the age of 17 on the day after World War II broke out. He served with the FAA in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Far East and it was when, in 1942, he was posted to what he terms "Paradise" - the Royal Naval Air station at Wingfield, Cape - that he met and befriended Able Seaman Just Nuisance. On the 40th anniversary of Nuisance's death Sisson decided to write a book about his canine "oppo" as a personal tribute to this unique Great Dane.