Gregory M. Carroll is not just the author of 11 Minutes—he lived it. Born and raised in the same tough world as the men in his story, he was more than a witness. He was a brother. Ian Carroll was his blood, his best man, and the man whose body he had to identify.

This book is not true crime. It’s something deeper. Facts tell you what happened. A novel lets you feel it. 11 Minutes reaches past police reports and courtrooms, into the quiet fears, the slow unraveling of loyalty, and the weight of choices made in the dark. It tells you not just what people did—but why.

Greg escaped that world the hard way. Night school. Long hours. He broke into the early days of computing, and went on to build two global tech companies. Along the way, he earned a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence and authored two award-winning books on risk and AI—21st Century Enterprise Risk Management and Risk Intelligence, the latter a quarterfinalist for the Booklife Prize. Now retired, he writes from the Gold Coast, Australia, bringing lived experience to the page with sharp insight and unflinching honesty. Just like the life that shaped it.

As an author and speaker, I have been sharing my expertise on the practical application of AI in risk management and business transformation for over five years. My book Risk Intelligence was a quarter finalist of the international Booklife Prize. I also developed an advanced PR3 RAG LLM for user query and analysis of airworthiness reports and regulations for the Australian Dept of Defence.

With over 19 years of experience as a solutions architect at Fast Track (Aust) Pty Ltd, I led the development of an AI-based Governance, Risk & Compliance software package that was implemented at over 300 organizations across Australia. I also co-founded and developed a Transport Logistics software package sold to Linfox, TNT and BP Malaysia, making CMS Transport Systems the market leader in Australia. I hold a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence from Torrens University Australia, a Certificate of Machine Learning from Stanford University, and a Grad Dip in Computer Simulation from Swinburne University of Technology. I am passionate about applying AI to solve complex problems and create value for businesses and society.