

Within three months of publication, that book was under a paid option to become a $30 million film.

Nevertheless, after a road traffic accident left him suffering from PTSD and effectively-out of paid work for four years, he wrote and self-published his first novel -The Desolate Garden.

On leaving academia he took on many roles in his working life: a London police officer, mini-cab business owner, pub tenant and licensed London taxi driver, but never did he plan to become a writer. However, it wasn’t until after his father died that he showed any interest in anything other than himself! His introduction to the world of espionage and mystery happened at an early age when his father was employed by the War Office in Whitehall, London, at the end of WWII. Daniel Kemp is a member of The Society of Authors.
