David Gilman is an English television screen writer and

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. Before becoming a writer, Gilman was previously a

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, professional

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and a

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in the Parachute Regiment's Reconnaissance Platoon. He was educated in Wales and worked for some time as a marketing manager for a publishing company in South Africa. Early jobs included forestry work, JCB driver and window dresser. He became a full-time writer in 1986. His Danger Zone series has been published in 15 countries. The first in the series was long listed for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and won the French Prix Polar Jeunesse. In 2017, ''The Last Horseman'' was on the shortlist for the Wilbur Smith Adventure awards. His book for young children, ''Monkey and Me'', was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. As a TV

screen writer A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. T ...

, Gilman was a principal writer on ''

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'' from 2000 to 2009. He also did some writing for ''Dalziel and Pascoe''. He currently lives in

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with his wife Suzy Chiazzari.https://www.fantasticfiction.com/g/david-gilman/ Author Bio

Bibliography

; Danger Zone #

The Devil's Breath ''The Devil's Breath'' is the first of three novels in the Danger Zone series by David Gilman, the second being ''Ice Claw'', and the third ''Blood Sun''. Plot summary Max Gordan is the main character in this book, he is a teenager attending ...

(2007) #

Ice Claw ''Ice Claw'' is a children's novel by David Gilman, published in 2008. It is the second book in Gilman's Danger Zone series with its principal character, eco hero teenager Max Gordon. The first book is ''The Devil's Breath'' and the third ''Blo ...

(2008) # Blood Sun (2009) ; Master of War # The Blooding (2013) # Defiant Unto Death (2015) # Gate of the Dead (2016) # Viper's Blood (2017) # Scourge of Wolves (2018) # Cross of Fire (2020) # Shadow of the Hawk (2021) ; The Englishman # The Englishman (2020) # Betrayal (2022) # Resurrection (2023) ; Other Books * Monkey and Me (2014) * The Last Horseman (2016) * Night Flight to Paris (2018)

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External links

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Official Dangerzone Webpage
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