Roland Ladley

'The best female protagonist since Homeland's Carrie Mattison', Frank Harper, director/actor Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

- 'Unique, compelling, surprising';
- 'Sam Green is an intriguing and relatable protagonist and her portrayal as the female lead is refreshingly different';
- 'An astonishing mix that will please fans like me of both Lee Child and Stella Rimington'.

Roland Ladley’s detailed, but flowing narrative has been compared to Le Carre and Deighton; Sam Green, his ‘flawed but resolute’ protagonist, to a female Jack Reacher - ‘only more edgy and much more prone to tears.’ His second spy thriller in the Sam Green series, Fuelling the Fire, won a publishing contract with Kindle Scout and went on to become a best-seller in its gen

'The best female protagonist since Homeland's Carrie Mattison', Frank Harper, director/actor Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

- 'Unique, compelling, surprising';
- 'Sam Green is an intriguing and relatable protagonist and her portrayal as the female lead is refreshingly different';
- 'An astonishing mix that will please fans like me of both Lee Child and Stella Rimington'.

Roland Ladley’s detailed, but flowing narrative has been compared to Le Carre and Deighton; Sam Green, his ‘flawed but resolute’ protagonist, to a female Jack Reacher - ‘only more edgy and much more prone to tears.’ His second spy thriller in the Sam Green series, Fuelling the Fire, won a publishing contract with Kindle Scout and went on to become a best-seller in its genre. His other seven books, Unsuspecting Hero, The Innocence of Trust, For Good Men To Do Nothing, On The Back Foot To Hell, Blood Red Earth, The Belmonte Paradox and To She Who Waits, have been equally well reviewed in both the UK and the US.

If espionage is your bag - and you’re after realistic, up-to-date conspiracy thrillers with a strong female lead - then the Sam Green series is waiting for you.

To bring realism to his writing Roland Ladley draws upon twenty-five years military service, including complex tours of Bosnia, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. Subsequent work as a teacher enables him to communicate lucidly to a wide audience, and two grown-up daughters ensures he can laugh at himself and find comic moments in his writing when the tension is at its greatest.

Now a full time writer based in Bristol, UK, he lives an itinerant lifestyle with his wife in their motorhome, posting a travel/writing blog and marketing his eight Sam Green novels. With the books’ cinematic style, it’s not surprising that the first, Unsuspecting Hero, has been turned into a mini-series screenplay and is being considered by a well-known British director.

Find him via his blog: https://thewanderlings2013.wordpress.com. And follow him on Twitter or via Facebook/Instagram @rolandtheauthor.