Tom Cain (author)

David Thomas (born 17 January 1959 in Moscow), better known by the pen name Tom Cain, is an English journalist and author of a series of thriller novels about protagonist Samuel Carver.

Biography

For the first few years of his life he lived in Moscow and has also lived in Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. Cain spent 25 years as a journalist, working for publications such as The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. He was mocked in Private Eye for his frequent contribution to these newspapers, being satirised as "Daily Thomas of the David Mail". In 1989, he became the youngest ever editor of Punch magazine, a role he stayed in for three years.

Books

Samuel Carver series

• 2007 The Accident Man
• 2008 The Survivor (US title: No Survivors)
• 2009 Assassin
• 2010 Dictator
• 2011 Carver
• 2012 Revenger