Graham Hurley, born in 1946 at Clacton on Sea, is an English

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writer. Formerly based in

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but now relocated in the West Country, he is best known for creating the character of DI Joe Faraday, following several standalone novels. He contributed a column to '' The Portsmouth News''. He received both a BA and an MA in English from the

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. He worked as a script-writer with

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before becoming a researcher and later a director. For TVS He filmed the discovery of the seabed wrecks of the ''Titanic'' and the ''Bismarck'' (with American oceanographer Robert Ballard) and produced ITV's account of Richard Branson's attempt to cross the Atlantic by balloon.

Bibliography

Standalone Novels

*''Rules of Engagement'' *''Reaper'' *''The Devil's Breath'' *''Thunder in the Blood'' *''Sabbathman'' *''The Perfect Soldier'' *''Heaven's Light'' *''Nocturne'' *''Permissible Limits''

DI Joe Faraday series

*''Turnstone'' *''The Take'' *''Angels Passing'' *''Deadlight'' *''Cut To Black'' *''Blood and Honey'' *''One Under'' *''The Price of Darkness'' *''No Lovelier Death'' *''Beyond Reach'' *''Borrowed Light'' *''Happy Days'' (2012)Graham Hurley
/ref> *''Backstory'' (2012) - A collection of stories filling the back story of the series

D/S Jimmy Suttle series

*''Western Approaches'' (2012)Graham Hurley
/ref> *''Touching Distance'' (2013) *''Sins of the Father'' (2014) *''The Order of Things'' (2015)

Wars Within series

*''Finisterre'' (2016) *''Aurore'' (2017) *''Estocada'' (2018) *''Raid 42'' (2019) *''Last Flight To Stalingrad'' (2020) *''Kyiv'' (2021) *''Katastrophe'' (2022) *''The Blood of Others'' (2023) *''Dead Ground'' (2024)

Enora Andressen series

*''Curtain Call'' (2019) *''Sight Unseen'' (2019) *''Off Script'' (2020) *''Limelight'' (2020) *''Intermission'' (2021)

Adaptations

Gétévé and

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started adapting Hurley's Faraday stories in 2011 through 90 minute

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s under the title ''Deux Flics sur les Docks'' (lit. ''Two Cops on the Docks'').

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and Bruno Solo headline the series, portraying Joe Faraday and Paul Winter respectively. By the end of 2013, six films have been produced and broadcast, adapting the novels ''Angels Passing'', ''Cut To Black'', ''One Under'', ''Blood and Honey'', ''Deadlight'' and ''The Take''.

References

External links

Interview with ''The Guardian''
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