Education
He went to school in Monmouth then studied Art and Art History at Goldsmiths College in London.
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Border Run: A Novel
(From the author of Bad Traffic (a Los Angeles Times Book ...)
From the author of Bad Traffic (a Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee), a fast-paced adventure novel about two young backpackers who find themselves in serious trouble in the jungle of Southeast Asia. On the Burmese border, two naïve backpackers, Will and Jake, follow a tour guide into the jungle, tantalized by the possibility of dalliances with the tribal women who live there. At an idyllic waterfall, they discover that nothing is as it seems and their guide has his own agenda. It is not long before the two young men slip into a nightmarish spiral of murder and moral decay, their chance of survival determined by a game of hide-and-seek played out with deadly crossbows. As the stakes get increasingly higher, the bonds of friendship are tested and lives are put on the line. Border Run is a gripping, amphetamine-paced novel about the hidden perils that can lurk in paradise, and the fine line that we draw for ourselves between what is “civilized” and what is not.
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Simon Lewis
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After graduation he travelled extensively in Asia before beginning work as a travel writer for Rough Guides publishing. He has since worked on five editions of the Rough Guide to China and is sole author of the Rough Guide to Shanghai and the Rough Guide to Beijing. His first novel, Go, a thriller about backpackers, was written in a village in the Himalayas.
lieutenant was first published by small press Pulp Books in 1998, but, following favourable press, was picked up by Corgi(1999).
lieutenant has since been translated into Swedish, German and Italian. His second novel, Bad Traffic, is a crime thriller about people smugglers.
lieutenant was published in 2008 by Sort of Books, and in 2009 by Scribner in the United States. lieutenant has been translated into Swedish, German, Italian, French, Japanese and Turkish. Simon was selected as one of 21 "writers to watch" at the 2008 the Guardian Hay Festival.
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Bad traffic (Trafic Sordide) has been shortlisted for the Villeneuve les Avignon festival of crime fiction. Bad traffic (Trafic Sordide) was shortlisted for the Prix Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français du Polar. Bad Traffic was shortlisted for The 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (mystery/thriller section). Bad Traffic featured in the 2009 world book day "Spread the Word" promotion. Bradt Travel Guides travel writing competition finalist in 2006.
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Border Run: A Novel
(From the author of Bad Traffic (a Los Angeles Times Book ...)
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Border Run: A Novel
