David Barker

I am a published author of thrillers, children’s fiction and pantomime scripts. An alumni of the Faber Academy, I have been writing for over ten years.

The Gaia trilogy features two British agents fighting for justice and global safety during a world war for water. Each book features a separate mission but the trilogy covers an overall story arc as the agents' personal lives become embroiled in their fight against terrorism.

The London Falling series is a trilogy of adventures set during a dark future vision of Britain where citizens of New London hide behind a giant wall and children are forced to toil in workhouses from an early age. Orphan Pax is offered the chance to join a prestigious school set in the old Houses of Parliament where he'll make new friends and enemies and discover not everything is quite what it seems in New London.

My latest book, Moonlight Robbery, combines elements of Oliver Twist with Ocean's 11 set in a city on the Moon.

I live in Berkshire with my wife and daughter. After spending nearly 30 years in the city, working as an economist and trying to predict the future (first for the Bank of England and later for an international fund). I now focus on writing full time. When not writing, you can often find me with a tennis racquet in my hand or on my surfboard, but rarely both at the same time.