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Tom Rob Smith
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Tom Rob Smith

Tom Rob Smith was born in l979 to a Swedish mother and an English father and was brought up in London where he still lives. He graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and spent a year in Italy on a creative writing scholarship. Tom has worked as a screenwriter for the past five years, including a six-month stint in Phnom Penh storylining Cambodia's first ever soap. His first novel, CHILD 44, was longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize, and won the Crime Writers' Association's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best adventure/thriller novel of 2008, and the American edition won Best Debut at... Read full bio

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Agent 6 will be released on January 19, 2012 in Mass Market Paperback
Jan 19, 2012
Agent 6 is now available in Mass Market Paperback
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Booktrade - Book2Book, May 18, 2012
...force goes head to head with SJ Watson's smash hit debut Before I Go To Sleep and Tom Rob Smith's Agent 6, the final in the trilogy about a former MGB agent, Leo Demidov. Power-house authors John Connolly, Ian Rankin, Robert Harris, and Val McDermid are...
Book Depository, April 27, 2012
...destroyed his life he takes it, but the question is, will the answers he finds set him free? Tom Rob Smith is a wonderful writer. His words flow with an ease that makes his stories an almost effortless read. The pages are virtually turning themselves as...
Deseret Morning News, April 7, 2012
...— some of whom may be teammates, after his decision led to their capture. "AGENT 6," by Tom Rob Smith (f): In this culminating novel of the Child 44 series set in 1965, Leo Demidov, a former secret police agent, is forbidden to travel with his family...
Business Day, March 27, 2012
...Agent 6, set in the Cold War period, is well served by Tom Rob Smith’s choice not to impose his own political stance on the narrative LESLEY STONES WHERE would novelists be without the Cold War? Decades after the chilly East versus...
Individual.com, March 19, 2012
...by Germans in "reprisals," and 200,000 Poles shot by Germans and Soviet forces. "Child 44" by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central Publishing, $14.99). Leo Demidov was a war hero and now he's a detective. But he's demoted and exiled when he goes against his...
Exeter Express and Echo, March 17, 2012
..."but my wife is the arbiter of taste". He is currently reading Child 44, the thriller novel by Tom Rob Smith. Life within the college can't compete with the world of fiction, but the last 15-20 years have seen an enormous shake-up in the education...
Wicked Local Lancaster, March 12, 2012
...coming to terms with the 30-year-old secret she was never able to reveal to him. ‘Agent 6’ by Tom Rob Smith With "Agent 6," Tom Rob Smith brings to a close his acclaimed trilogy featuring Soviet police detective Leo Demidov. In his final case, Leo...
Deseret Morning News, April 7, 2012
...— some of whom may be teammates, after his decision led to their capture. "AGENT 6," by Tom Rob Smith (f): In this culminating novel of the Child 44 series set in 1965, Leo Demidov, a former secret police agent, is forbidden to travel with his family...
Pagosa Springs Sun, April 6, 2012
...little girl who was spirited out of school and into the world of a cult. “Agent 6” by Tom Rob Smith is a thriller set in Russia and New York. “Lone Wolf” by Jody Picoult is about a man better qualified to study wolves than to meet the needs...
Mail Online UK, March 31, 2012
...turns up personal secrets. PHANTOM JO NESBO Ex-cop is hunter/ hunted as he investigates a murder. SECRET SPEECH TOM ROB SMITH Moscow, 1956: a killer wants revenge. THE SHINING STEPHEN KING All work and no play makes Jack a very scary boy... THREE SECONDS...
Business Day, March 27, 2012
...Agent 6, set in the Cold War period, is well served by Tom Rob Smith’s choice not to impose his own political stance on the narrative LESLEY STONES WHERE would novelists be without the Cold War? Decades after the chilly East versus...
Wicked Local Wareham, March 25, 2012
...terms with the 30-year-old secret she was never able to reveal to him. Agent 6 With Agent 6, Tom Rob Smith brings to a close his acclaimed trilogy featuring Soviet police detective Leo Demidov. In his final case, Leo investigates the murder of his wife,...
Wicked Local Marion, March 25, 2012
...terms with the 30-year-old secret she was never able to reveal to him. Agent 6 With Agent 6, Tom Rob Smith brings to a close his acclaimed trilogy featuring Soviet police detective Leo Demidov. In his final case, Leo investigates the murder of his wife,...
Wicked Local Kingston, March 25, 2012
...terms with the 30-year-old secret she was never able to reveal to him. Agent 6 With Agent 6, Tom Rob Smith brings to a close his acclaimed trilogy featuring Soviet police detective Leo Demidov. In his final case, Leo investigates the murder of his wife,...