A policeman has become a best-selling author after the wild drunks he dealt with on the beat inspired him to write zombie apocalypse novels.
Richard Haywood, 47, was on £38,000 a year as a constable – he is now one of our most successful writers and earns up to £500,000 a year.
He writes under the name RR Haywood and has drawn on his experience of pub chucking-out time on the Isle of Wight to create scenes of zombie madness and terror in his hit The Undead series.
