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Craig Thomas

Born

in Cardiff, Wales, The United Kingdom

November 24, 1942

Died

April 04, 2011

Website

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Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction

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David Craig Owen Thomas was a Welsh author of thrillers, most notably the Mitchell Gant series.

The son of the Western Mail rugby union writer, JBG Thomas, Craig was educated at Cardiff High School. He graduated from University College, Cardiff in 1967, obtaining his M.A. after completing a thesis on Thomas Hardy. Thomas became an English Teacher, working in various grammar schools in the West Midlands, and was Head of English at the Shire Oak School, Walsall Wood.

After unsuccessfully trying script writing for radio, Thomas wrote part-time, with his wife as editor, in two fields: philosophical thoughts in books of essays; and techno-thriller genre, which although invention is often attributed to the better-known Tom Clancy, many feel that Th ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 10,125 ratings · 327 reviews · 87 distinct works • Similar authors

	Firefox (Mitchell Gant, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 6,151 ratings — published 1980 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Firefox Down! (Mitchell Gant, #2) 3.82 avg rating — 998 ratings — published 1983 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter Hawk (Mitchell Gant, #3) 3.74 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 1987 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sea Leopard (Kenneth Aubrey and Patrick Hyde, #3) 3.74 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 1981 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snow Falcon (Kenneth Aubrey and Patrick Hyde, #2) 3.72 avg rating — 325 ratings — published 1979 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolfsbane (Kenneth Aubrey and Patrick Hyde, #1) 3.57 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1978 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Raven (Kenneth Aubrey and Patrick Hyde, #7) 3.48 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 1990 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jade Tiger (Kenneth Aubrey and Patrick Hyde, #4) 3.69 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1982 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emerald Decision 3.39 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1980 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rat Trap 3.40 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1976 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It was not, he discovered, necessary to have a great deal to live for to be utterly opposed to dying.”
― Craig Thomas, Firefox: The classic novel that launched the techno-thriller genre

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“That utter isolation was something he had never rid himself of on the ground, not even in violent drinking-jags, or in the relief of Saigon prostitutes. And the reason he sought that lonely superiority of the skies was because the ground had never offered him more than an inferior copy of the same empty isolation.”
― Craig Thomas, Firefox: The classic novel that launched the techno-thriller genre

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“Any order that you are given is a source of resentment, is that not so? You are a free man…”
― Craig Thomas, Firefox: The classic novel that launched the techno-thriller genre

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