FIDE Master James Vigus is a former British Junior Champion. He's a regular book reviewer and contributor to British Chess Magazine and was editor of Dragon (Cambridge University Chess Magazine). This is his first book for Everyman Chess. Outside of chess, he's completing a PhD in English Literature at Cambridge.

THE PIRC IN BLACK and WHITE is, without any doubt, the best book on the Pirc ever written. It's up to date, filled with original analysis by the author, offers interesting move orders that avoid some problem lines, and gives a very useful summary at the end of every chapter. I said it earlier and I'll say it again: this is a MUST BUY if you play the Pirc, or if you open with 1.e4. An outstanding piece of work! Jeremy Silman