Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson was born in 1957 and educated at Oxford where he read English, travelled around the USA on a Greyhound bus and drove to Katmandu. After university he took archeological tours around Crete for a year, worked in London as a shipbroker specialising in liquid gas and, after a six month cycling tour of Iberia, transferred to advertising. After getting married and spending a year driving through Africa he moved to Portugal. There he began writing and earned money by working in Ghana and Benin where he set up a sheanut trading operation. He started his writing career with four Chandleresque noir novels featuring the expat flotsam, Bruce Medway, who is a fixer, debt collector and drinker operating on the West African coast. These were followed by A Small Death in Lisbon which combined a modern day murder investigation with the wolfram wars of WW2 and won him the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel in 1999. The Company of Strangers (2001) is a spy thriller and love story set in Lisbon, London and Cold War Berlin and spans 50 years of espionage. His latest series of books is a quartet set in Seville. The first of these, The Blindman of Seville published in 2003, introduced the tortured Spanish detective, Javier Falcón. This was followed in September 2004 by The Silent and the Damned (aka in USA as The Vanished Hands) and the third, The Hidden Assassins, in 2007. All books are published by HarperCollins.
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