The Humphrey Hawksley Blog

This is a quick note that MAN ON FIRE is reprinting having sold out in British bookstores within a few days. Thank you for your support. It will be available in the next couple of weeks. If you can, please ‘Shop Local’ and support your bookstore, particularly in times of Covid. If you’re heading off […]

Author and crime reviewer for The Times,  Mark Sanderson, will give a hilarious account of how he receives dozens and dozens of new titles from which he must choose five or six only as his current picks. Authors and publishers bite their nails as to whether their books will make it in. Mark lives on […]

   My Piece for Crime Readers Association Home – The Crime Readers’ Association (thecra.co.uk) Man on Fire Humphrey Hawksley  A tense firefight on the Russian-American border heralds the start of a terrifying high-stakes assignment for special forces Major Rake Ozenna in this gripping espionage crime thriller. Rake’s mission takes him to a settlement on the […]

FELINE DIPLOMACY

Wow! What a crab! From those who remember JoAnn Kaningok’s stunning Diomedes islands photo of few days back. This is what Henry Soolook pulled out of a square hole like the one in the foreground there. The Diomedes islands straddle the U.S.-Russian border, so not sure what networks the crabs have under the ice or […]

My third #RakeOzenna thriller, Man on Fire, is out in the U.K. today with hard, fast action in a chase for a weapon few of us have ever imagined and neuromarketing politics which could turn the world as we know it on its head. I love the artwork for its upcoming advertising campaign.  

My third Rake Ozenna thriller is out in the U.K. April 29th with a stunning pre-publication review from Kirkus.  Rake is an Alaskan native, raised on a remote island on the Russian border. His missions are high-stakes and high octane and he has a girlfriend he has yet to pin down. In MAN ON FIRE, […]

Condemnation of Chinese prison camps in Xinjiang is now drawing in the issue of forced labour, supply chains and whether we should buy Chinese products.  Below is a letter I wrote to The Times and privileged to share the slot with George Magnus, an expert on the issue. Sir, Hannah Lucinda Smith’s article on Xinjiang’s […]