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Tim Adler

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Thriller, Biography

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Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, Joan Didion, Robert Stone

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Tim Adler is an author and journalist who has written three nonfiction books for publishers including Bloomsbury.

The Week said that Tim writes “with brio” while the Daily Mail has described his work as “dazzling” while The Sunday Times called it “compulsively readable”.

He is a former commissioning editor on The Daily Telegraph, who has also written for the Financial Times and The Times.

Tim has written four thrillers, including his debut SLOW BLEED, which ranked #1 on the Kindle medical thriller chart, and HOLD STILL, which bestselling crime author Peter James said, “hooked me from the beginning”.

He is former London editor of Hollywood entertainment news website Deadline and, more recently, the website he now edits was named as a top blog ...more

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Average rating: 3.75 · 2,135 ratings · 315 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Slow Bleed 3.87 avg rating — 1,055 ratings — published 2014 — 6 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
	Hold Still 3.30 avg rating — 450 ratings — 7 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
	Surrogate 3.85 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 2014 — 5 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 Woman in Room 9 4.08 avg rating — 125 ratings	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
	Over Her Dead Body 4.13 avg rating — 78 ratings — 2 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
	Hollywood and the Mob: Movies, Mafia, Sex & Death 3.50 avg rating — 56 ratings — 12 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 House of Redgrave: The Lives of a Theatrical Dynasty 3.25 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2011 — 8 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
	Dead Already 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 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 Producers: Money, Movies and Who Calls the Shots 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — 5 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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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Max Tegmark

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The Heavenly Table

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David Bowie: A Life

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“Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.”
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