His work has received critical acclaim, been shortlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award, and his fourth novel, American Blood, has been optioned for film adaptation by Warner Bros, with four-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper slated to play the lead role.
His favourite authors as a young reader were Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Peter Dexter, and James Ellroy.
The Fallen introduced Sean Devereaux, an Auckland police detective, and John Hale, a security specialist and ex-colleague.
The international judging panel for the Ngaio Marsh Award called By Any Means a “real page turner” and Sanders “a master of the short sentence and crisp dialogue”, reminiscent of Elmore Leonard.
[7] Following the critical and commercial success of his Auckland trilogy, Sanders was signed to a two-book contract by New York publishers Macmillan after he visited the United States on a Bellingham Wallace Emerging Talent Award in mid 2013.