Gordon Thomas (b. 1933) is a Welsh author who has written fifty-three books. The total sales of his works exceed 45 million copies. Thomas divides his time between his homes in Ireland and England, with his wife, an interior designer. His four children work in various sections of the entertainment industry.
Thomas was born in Wales, in a cemetery keeper’s cottage where his grandmother lived.
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Gordon Thomas (b. 1933) is a Welsh author who has written fifty-three books. The total sales of his works exceed 45 million copies. Thomas divides his time between his homes in Ireland and England, with his wife, an interior designer. His four children work in various sections of the entertainment industry.
Biography
Thomas was born in Wales, in a cemetery keeper’s cottage where his grandmother lived. He had his first story published at nine years old in a Boys Own Paper competition. With his father in the RAF, he travelled widely and was educated at the
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, the Maritz Brothers in Port Elizabeth and, finally, at Bedford Modern.
His first book, completed at the age of seventeen, is the story of a British spy in Russia during World War Two, titled
Descent Into Danger. He turned down the offer of a place at university in order to accompany a travelling fair for a year: those experiences became
Bed of Nails. Since then his books have been published worldwide. He has been a foreign correspondent beginning with the
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. He was a BBC writer/producer for three flagship
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programmes: Man Alive, Tomorrows World and Horizon. He is a regular contributor to Facta, the respected monthly Japanese news magazine, and he lectures widely on the secret world of intelligence. He also provides expert analysis on intelligence for US and European television and radio shows.
His Gideon’s Spies: Mossad’s Secret Warriors became a major documentary for Channel Four that he wrote and narrated:
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. It followed three years of research during which he was given unprecedented access to
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’s key personnel. The documentary was co-produced by
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and Israfilm.