Nicholas Boving is the author and publisher of the Maxim Gunn series of action/adventure books for readers of all ages, and the second in the series, Maxim Gunn and the Demon Plan was a finalist in the 1998 Crime Writers of Canada, Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile Novel. Nicholas Boving has also written other novels and screenplays which follow the central character to countries and places where the forces of nature as much as people provide the conflict.