Knife Gun Poison Bomb: A Daniel Jacquot Thriller: Volume 8 Paperback - 2015 - 1st Edition

Born in South Devon, educated at The Oratory School, and at Hertford College, Oxford, Martin lasted five days as a graduate trainee with an American investment bank before leaving the City to pursue a career as a writer and journalist. After the usual raft of would-be writer's jobs (short-order griddle-chef, waiter, cocktail barman, removals and demolition man), Martin joined Cond Nast Publications as a copy-sub and later became Travel Editor at British Vogue, a position he held for a number of years. After leaving Vogue, he wrote "All The Girls," a book about hookers and whorehouses around the world ('A classic among travel books' - Auberon Waugh, Books & Bookmen), and freelanced as a travel and life-style writer for a number of international magazines. When marriage and fatherhood put an end to his travelling days, Martin settled down to write the Daniel Jacquot detective series ('Rich, spicy, and served up with unmistakeable relish' - The Literary Review), and straight-to-paperback thrillers under the name Jack Drummond ('Big, high-pitched disaster novels don't come much more thrilling than this' - The Daily Mirror). Martin's books have been translated into Russian, Turkish, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Hebrew. He also writes stand-alone e-books, the first of which, "Lunching The Girls," is now available for download. His latest book, "Knife Gun Poison Bomb," is Jacquot's eighth outing, and a first-draft sequel - "Talking To The Sharks" - is nearing completion. After more than thirty years on the road, Martin lives in the Cotswolds with his wife, two daughters, and a spaniel.