His credits include Payback with Mel Gibson, From Hell, starring Johnny Depp, and Vertical Limit with Chris O'Donnell. After moving to Los Angeles he worked as a screen-writer on major studio productions.

In all, he has won over twenty film or television awards. He also co-produced and wrote Dead Calm, the film which launched Nicole Kidman's international movie career, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and a large number of TV movies and mini-series - including Bodyline and Bangkok Hilton - two of which received international Emmy nominations. He resigned to produce a prominent current affairs radio program and a short time later, with George Miller, wrote the screenplay for Road Warrior/Mad Max 2. At twenty-one he was appointed North American correspondent, based in New York, and after two years returned to Sydney to become an investigative reporter, political correspondent and columnist.

Born in Sussex, England, he migrated to Australia as a child and trained as a journalist at the country's leading broadsheet.

Terry Hayes is a former journalist and screen-writer. Amazingly assured and complex, this is one of the best debut novels I've ever read' Stav Sherez 'Clever and compulsive - the best thriller in years' - Deidre O'Brien Sunday Mirror This is a frightening, pulse-pounding journey into the future of terrorism and the brave new world we've been ushered into. With a stunning sense of plot, beautifully detailed writing, huge ambition and even huger talent, Hayes has produced one of the most memorable novels of recent times. Great nail-biting stuff!' Robert Goddard 'The narrative is thrilling: the tension tightens with action.It's a murder mystery, an illuminating account of contemporary international politics and a study of an unusual man.An excellent thriller which as a first novel is really remarkable' Literary Review 'I Am Pilgrim takes the modern spy novel and pushes it screaming and kicking into the twentieth-first century. Delivers thrills and spills.A full tilt mix of Homeland, The Wire and The Bourne Ultimatum' Mail on Sunday 'Rendition yourself into a pulsating thriller that never lets up as it carries the hero and the reader on an ever more desperate race between time and an all too plausible disaster for the world we live in.

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