David Wren

David Wren writes British spy thriller fiction in the tradition of John le Carré and Mick Herron – quiet, patient thrillers about ordinary, competent people who find themselves inside the machinery of the state – where not every betrayal looks like one.

He comes to it honestly. Former British Army, he has spent more than two decades in and around critical national infrastructure, defence, and the unglamorous business of assurance and procurement that quietly keeps a country running. It is a world of committees and caveats, of warnings written down and filed away under a single careful word, and it turns out to be very good country for a spy story.

David Wren is a pen name. The author has spent his career close enough to the real thing to prefer it that way.

His debut novel, INSERTION, introduces David Carver – an unremarkable man who once saw something he wasn't meant to, who was believed, and it was buried anyway. INSERTION is the first of a series.