Neil Forsyth was born in Scotland in 1978. After growing up in Dundee he worked in a number of jobs before a career in journalism that led to him discovering the Scottish fraudster Elliot Castro. Other People's Money tells the story of Castro's remarkable life. It was serialised in The Guardian newspaper, has been released so far in six countries and is being developed as a feature film. Forsyth has also written the critically acclaimed Bob Servant humour books and the novel Let Them Come Through.