Daniel Renard

Daniel Renard spent close to three decades working in and around the institutions his fiction now interrogates — diplomatic postings, intelligence liaison, and the kind of organised crime crime casework that rarely makes the papers and never makes a press release. He writes under a pseudonym for reasons that will be obvious to anyone who has worked in that world, and he has kept his real identity separate from his writing life deliberately and permanently.

His debut novel, Under Review, introduces Dominic Carlisle, a former intelligence officer running a private consultancy that takes on the cases governments cannot be seen to touch. The series sits in the tradition of John le Carré's institutional unease and Mick Herron's ensemble wit, with the pace and polish of Daniel Silva — books built from the inside of the world they describe, rather than researched from the outside looking in.

Renard lives in Europe and, escaping his taxing adventures. writes full-time. He does not give interviews about his previous career, and he prefers it that way.