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Hi! I'm Carl Rackman, a British former airline pilot turned author. I spent my working life travelling the world and this has given me a keen interest in other people and cultures. I've drawn on my many experiences for my writing.

I write suspense thrillers with a grounded science-fiction theme. I like reading novels that feature atmospheric locales and I enjoy complex, absorbing storylines combined with rich, believable characters, so that's the sort of fiction I write. I try to create immersive worlds for the reader to explore, and characters who are more than just vehicles for the story.

I come from a naval military background and have held a lifelong interest in military history and seafaring - all my books usually contain some of these e
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Carl Rackman I stop writing and take a break. I build scale models as a hobby, so I can immerse myself in other things besides writing. It has worked up to now!
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Incendiary has landed!

Incendiary is now available on all e-book platforms and Amazon paperback.

Incendiary is a chilling suspense thriller that begins with the escape of a mysterious creature codenamed Horla from top-secret captivity. But it is the tensions and pressures on the human characters that really sets the suspenseful tone.

Dr Mel Villiers is a thirty-ish bioscientist working at the UK's top secret Porton Down r Read more of this blog post »
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