David Thomas (Author)

David Thomas (* 1959 in Moscow ) is a British journalist and writer who is best known in German-speaking countries under his pseudonym Tom Cain .

Life

David Thomas grew up in Maidstone, Kent. However, he spent the first three years of his life in Moscow , as his father David Churchill Thomas was a diplomat . Because of the father's activity, the family was also in Cuba and three years in Washington, DC.  From 1977 he studied at the University of Cambridge and graduated there.

Since then he has worked as a freelance journalist for many well-known newspapers and magazines in Great Britain and the USA . As an investigative journalist , he covered financial scandals on Wall Street , intrigue in Hollywood and corrupt athletes in Great Britain. He has received several awards for his work.

From 1989 to 1992 he was editor of the British satirical magazine Punch . 

Since 2007 he has been writing thrillers under his pseudonym Tom Cain , in which he sometimes depicts real events, e.g. B. the death of Princess Diana , combined with a fictional plot. The books previously published under Tom Cain are about the fictional secret agent Samuel Carver.

In 2011 he published his first thriller under his own name, Blood Relative .

Books

As Tom Cain

• Target . Bastei Lübbe, 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-15879-9 (Original: The Accident Man , Bantam Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-593-05805-3 ) translated by Angela Koonen
• Survivor . Bastei Lübbe, 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-16271-0 (Original: The Survivor , Bantam Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-593-05851-0 / US title: No Survivors ) translated by Angela Koonen
• Assassin . Bastei Lübbe, 2010, ISBN 978-3-404-16447-9 (English original: Assassin , Bantam Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-593-06231-9 ) translated by Angela Koonen
• Collateral . Bastei Lübbe, 2011, ISBN 978-3-404-16076-1 (English original: Dictator , Bantam Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-593-06234-0 ) translated by Angela Koonen
• Collapse . Bastei Lübbe, 2013, ISBN 978-3-404-16764-7 (Original: Carver , Bantam Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-593-06765-9 )
• Revenger . Bantam Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-593-06769-7 (English)

As David Thomas

• Girl. Haffmans, 1995, ISBN 3 251 00299 6
• Blood Relative . Quercus, 2011, ISBN 978-0-85738-797-4 (English)

Web links

• Tom Cain at Bastei Lübbe
• journalisted.com - List of articles by David Thomas
• High50.com - Article by David Thomas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Thomas in his book Blood Relative , 2011, (English)
2. ↑ DailyMail-Article: It wasn't just fondues flares know. Retrieved October 23, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Details on Tom Cain at luebbe.de. Retrieved October 24, 2012 . 
4. ↑ biography at authorsplace.co.uk. Retrieved October 24, 2012 .