LEE CHILD is British but moved with his family from Cumbria to the United States to start a new career as an American thriller writer. He is most famous for his Jack Reacher series. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award, and his second, Die Trying, won W H Smith’s Thumping Good Read(…)

Harlan was born in Newark, New Jersey. After graduating from Amherst College a political science major, Harlan worked in the travel industry. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben MD, a pediatrician, and their four children. Coben was the first writer in more than a decade to be invited to write(…)

After graduating from Cornell Law School in 1989, Barry Eisler spent three years with the U.S. government. For a decade thereafter he practiced various aspects of international law, including a year with the Japanese law firm of Hamada and Matsumoto in Tokyo and two years as in-house counsel at the Osaka headquarters of Matsushita Electric(…)

Matt Hilton worked for twenty-two years in private security and the police force in Cumbria. He is a 4th Dan blackbelt and coach in Ju-Jitsu. He lives in Cumbria with his wife and son.

Thomas Perry is the author of over 20 novels including the Jane Whitfield Series. Perry was born in Tonawanda, New York. He received a BA from Cornell University in 1969 and a Ph.D in English from the University of Rochester in 1974. Thomas has worked as a park maintenance man, factory laborer, commercial fisherman, university(…)

David Morrell is one of America’s most popular and acclaimed storytellers, with over eighteen million copies of his books in print. His thrillers have been translated into twenty-two languages and turned into record-breaking films as well as top-rated TV miniseries. A former professor of American literature at the University of Iowa, David Morrell now lives(…)

Zoe Sharp was born in Nottinghamshire, but spent most of her formative years living on a catamaran on the northwest coast of England. After a promising start at a private girls’ school, she opted out of mainstream education at the age of twelve in favour of correspondence courses at home. She wrote her first (unpublished)(…)

Taylor Stevens is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author whose thrillers are published in 20 languages. Born into an apocalyptic religious cult, Stevens was raised in communes across the globe. Separated from her family at age twelve and denied an education beyond sixth grade, the majority of her adolescence was spent begging on city(…)