I'm the author of Diamond Geezers, which tells the story of the attempted robbery of the £350m De Beers diamonds from the Millennium Dome in London in 2000. It was published to critical acclaim in October 2004. (“Sensational…explosive” News of the World, “a fascinating account of the event… it sounds like a box office hit" This is London,  “an incredible story” The Guardian; “Rip-roaring stuff that you won't be able to stop reading once you start,” Amazon.co.uk).

How to Kill: The Definitive History of the Assassin  was published in the UK by Century Random House in June 2007 and in paperback by Arrow in April 2008. It was also published in the United States by St Martins Press in June 2008. I was inspired to create www.assassinology.org after realising that while there was an enormous interest in assassination, there was no general website for this topic, particularly with reference to assassinations in the 21st Century.

Other books include Crack House: the incredible true story of the man who took on London’s crack gangs and won, published by Simon and Schuster, June 2008. It was widely acclaimed, (including a five-star review in Arena, as well as raves in Loaded, Maxim, Nuts and the News of the World). It was one of Amazon’s book deals of the week, and the trade paperback has stayed in the top twenty true crime books on Amazon since its publication. The follow-up, Cardigan Squad, is due to be published by Simon and Schuster in 2009.

I'm also the co-author of Line of Fire (Simon and Schuster, March 2008), the explosive autobiography of Brian Paddick, former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Met Police and Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of London. “Paddick's fascinating book [is full of] lively, often racy candour. It is the sexually frankest autobiography by any senior officer,” The Guardian; “I admired the book's candour… a succession of anecdotes that could have been lifted from the TV series Life on Mars,” Financial Times. It went to number ten on WH Smith's new bestsellers in April after being reviewed by Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times. The paperback was published in November 2008.

As a ghost writer, I've worked on a variety of projects, including the autobiographies of a feral child, a record-breaking sailor and an internationally known women's rights campaigner.