David A. Rollins
By the time David A. Rollins began writing his first novel he’d already parachuted, raced motorcycles, boxed, earned his aerobatic pilot’s license and driven sports cars. There was very little room to manoeuvre when it came to expressing his mid-life crisis, except of course to change career paths. So he threw in his job as a successful, award-winning advertising writer/creative director to try his hand at being an international best-selling thriller novelist. This has so far proved to be his riskiest undertaking yet.
Rollins’s first two novels Rogue Element (2003) and Sword of Allah (2004) followed the exploits of Tom Wilkes, a combat sergeant in the Australian SAS, and were bestsellers in Australia. His next novel The Death Trust takes us into new territory with a new hero, Special Agent Vin Cooper and a plot which takes us to Germany, the Balkans and present day Baghdad. With more twists and turns than a bucket of snakes, The Death Trust is a mystery thriller which combines the sensibilities of Nelson De Mille and Robert Ludlum.
Rollins is currently dividing his time between freelance advertising and journalism, and researching his next novel. He lives in Sydney with his wife and three children.