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Very pleased to announce that the US version of my novel, BAPTISM, has just received a prestigious "starred review" in Publishers Weekly. Further details here:

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I’m very proud to announce the publication of my new novel, SACRIFICE, which is the second thriller to feature blind hostage negotiator, Ed Mallory. The book is published by Quercus Books in paperback and ebook...

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My new novel, SACRIFICE, the second thriller to feature the hostage negotiator, Ed Mallory, is released today via Quercus Books. To read the opening chapters and order online, please go to: http://amzn.to/19G2WHz

It's exactly one month until my new novel, SACRIFICE, is released in the UK via Quercus Books. To find out how you can receive a free signed copy of the book for one month only, please visit my blog:

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This offer is only available to members of my social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Linkedin). Also on the post, you will find a link to the first three chapters of the book. I hope you like the look of them! Please share with friends who are crime/thriller fans or anyone you know who may be interested. Thanks.

Master the art of taking a story from page to screen with novelist, screenwriter and head of subject in creative writing at Brunel University, Max Kinnings, along with special guest, award-winning producer/director, Phil Hawkins. This two day masterclass will cover all aspects of the adaptation process, analysis of source material, screenplay structure, characterisation and story design. What makes a good adaptation? Why do some screen adaptations fail while others succeed? Isn't every screenplay an adaptation of sorts?

10am-5pm, 21st & 22nd of September
The Guardian, 90 York Way, King's Cross, London, N1 9GU
Price: £349 Early Bird (limited); £399 standard (includes VAT, booking fees, lunch and refreshments)
Event capacity: 16

More information and bookings:
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For those of you who might be curious as to what I get up to as a lecturer in Creative Writing, here's a link to a video of me talking at the Digital Humanities Summer School at Oxford University a few weeks ago.

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My new novel, Sacrifice, the second of a series that features blind hostage negotiator, Ed Mallory, is released by Quercus on November 7th in the UK. As a preview of the new book, you can read the first chapter via the link below. This is the first of three chapters that I’ll post prior to the release date.

Whereas Baptism concerns itself with religious fundamentalists hijacking a London Tube train, Sacrifice tells of the Christmas Day kidnapping of the Poynter family in their central London mansion by persons, very much, unknown. A disgraced hedge fund manager, Graham Poynter has good reason to want to hide away from the media and those anonymous forces ranged against him. But try as hard as he may to keep himself and his family out of the spotlight, there are some people who will stop at nothing to make sure that he pays for his crimes in the most public and brutal way imaginable.

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If you're a novelist who is interested in adapting your novels for the screen, please read the following blog post about a Guardian Masterclass I've been asked to give on September 21st & 22nd on screen adaptation.

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To mark the release on Kindle of my first two novels HITMAN and THE FIXER from 2000 and 2001, I'm giving away a vintage first edition of each book, personally dedicated and signed.

Please click on the links below to enter the competition.

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My first two novels from 2000 and 2001, Hitman and The Fixer, are released on Kindle today by Hodder & Stoughton. Here are links to blogs I've written about each of the two books and their reissue. If you click on the images of the covers in the blogs, you can read the opening chapters on Amazon.co.uk.

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