- Stephen Leather
Stephen Leather is an English thriller author who writes pacy "action packed" novels in a style deliberately based upon the work of
Jack Higgins andGerald Seymour . His novels frequently include themes of crime, imprisonment and military service, and lately terrorism and the War Against Terror. Settings are typically London and the Far East.Leather was born in
Manchester and grew up in Sale and Chorlton-cum-Hardy, and attendedManchester Grammar School . [ [http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/entertainment/arts/s/234/234245_hot_on_the_trail_of_terror_.html Manchester Evening News] ] After a career as a journalist - working for theGlasgow Herald , theDaily Mirror , theDaily Mail , theSouth China Morning Post andThe Times - he began writing fiction, and his first novel was published from the "slush pile " at Harper Collins. He has since moved from England to the Far East, to the USA and Ireland, writing novels set in these countries. He is now published by Hodder and Stoughton and has sold more than two million books in more than twenty languages.Two of his novels, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were filmed for Sky Television. He has also written for TV shows such as The Knock, London's Burning and the BBC's Murder In MInd series.
Published books
*"Pay Off" (1986)
*"The Fireman"
*"Hungry Ghost"
*"The Chinaman"
*"The Vets"
*"The Long Shot"
*"The Birthday Girl"
*"The Double Tap"
*"The Solitary Man"
*"The Tunnel Rats"
*"The Bombmaker" (1999)
*"The Stretch" (2000)
*"Tango One" (2002)
*"The Eyewitness" (2003)
*"Hard Landing" (2004)
*"Soft Target" (2005)
*"Private Dancer" (2005 - originally only available as a download, Leather has self-published this work)
*"Confessions Of A Bangkok Private Eye" (2006)
*"Cold Kill" (2006)
*"Hot Blood" (2007)
*"Dead Men" (2008)External links
* [http://www.stephenleather.com/ Official website.]
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