Garry Kilworth

Garry Douglas Kilworth (born 5 July 1941 in York, England) is a British science fiction, fantasy and historical novelist, and a former Royal Air Force cryptographer.

[1] After demobilisation he joined Cable & Wireless, an international telecommunications company, quitting them to become a full-time writer in 1981.

Kilworth continues to produce novels and short stories, and released an autobiography, On My Way To Samarkand, detailing, among other things, his vast travelling experiences over the globe.

His most recent books are Dragoons, a historical war novel set in South Africa, and Attica, a dark quest set in an attic the size of a continent which was purchased by Johnny Depp's movie company, Adfinitum Nihil.

Kilworth's novel Rogue Officer won the 2008 Charles Whiting Award for Historical War Literature.