Jeff Dawson

Jeff Dawson is a journalist, author and scriptwriter. Historical thriller, No Ordinary Killing (2017) – an Amazon/Kindle No.1 – was his debut novel. Follow-ups, The Cold North Sea (2018) and Hell Gate (2020), continue the adventures of Edwardian army sleuth, Captain Ingo Finch. He also pens episodes of the award-winning podcast, Real Dictators (200 million listeners and counting).

Jeff is the author of three non-fiction books — Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool (Applause, 1995), Back Home: England And The 1970 World Cup (Orion, 2001), which The Times rated "Truly outstanding", and Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005), nominated for the Mountbatten Maritime Prize.

Preceding this is a distinguished career in journalism. Jeff was a long-standing contributor to The Sunday Times Culture section, interviewing the great (and not always good) of Hollywood. Before that, amongst other things, he was the US Editor of Empire magazine.

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