He spent most of his childhood in Cannock in the Midlands, then went to the University of Birmingham Medical School. Mercurio was born to working-class Italian parents in Lancashire, the son of a miner and a machinist. ‘You’re able to take subjects that are difficult to portray on screen and tackle them with greater depth.’ ‘There’s much greater bandwidth in a novel,’ he says. The clues are there in three brilliant novels he wrote in the Noughties. What a lot of his fans won’t know is that he served both as an officer in the RAF and a doctor in the NHS. Gerald (aka Jed) Mercurio has quizzical eyebrows and a mischievous glint in his eyes. His greying hair is closely cropped but a bit messy on top. The evidence shows this 52-year-old is of medium build and often dresses in muted colours. Let’s play at being DS Steve Arnott and DC Kate Fleming then (played by Martin Compston and Vicky McClure in Line Of Duty). Could the villain still turn out to be Hastings? Yes, it could
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