Some interesting info here, esp concerning the ex-wife:
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/phili...se-reads-novel
During the time period of 1997-2003, Timpson was training for a new career in “sexology” and “forensic sexology.” Shue’s lawsuit claims that Timpson “spent thousands of dollars that she apparently did not have attending seminars.”
Timpson also studied under the tutelage of Dr. William Granzig, a sexologist who wrote the preface of a book entitled "Screw the Roses, Give Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism," a how-to guide for bondage and sadomasochism.
Colonel Philip Shue had been bound and ritualistically tortured before he died of massive head injuries in his automobile crash.