 Other books by Headley include "Excess" (1993) "Yush" (1994), "Fetish" (1995), "Here Comes the Bride" (1997), "Off Duty" (2001) and "Seven Seals" (2003).Born in Jamaica, Headley came to live in London at the age of 12 and after leaving school had a variety of jobs, from market stallholder to songwriter/band member, journalist to hospital courier.Headley's attempts to write a screenplay became his first novel, "Yardie", which describes the life of a Jamaican courier carrying cocaine from Jamaica to London.