Christopher McIntosh has ranged far and wide as an author, while for most of his life pursuing a varied and wandering career, working as a journalist, a publisher, a United Nations official and a university lecture. He has lived in many different places including Edinburgh, London, New York, Hamburg and Bremen. While his work as an author includes travel-writing, literary criticism and biography, his main focus is on the esoteric traditions of the West. His novels, Return of the Tetrad and The Lebensborn Spy have established him as a skilled writer of fiction.