Client details
Paul Adam
Agent
| Simon Trewin | Associate Agent: Ariella Feiner |
About
Paul Adam was born in 1958. He grew up in Sheffield and studied law at Nottingham University. He began his writing career as a journalist and has worked in Rome as well as in England. He has written eleven thrillers and has written for television. He is currently working on his Young Adult trilogy, THE MAX CASSIDY SERIES, the first of which, ESCAPE FROM SHADOW ISLAND, won the Salford Children's Book Award 2011. He lives in Sheffield with his wife and children. For more information about Paul Adam please see his website www.pauladam.com. Latest Publication: This is the third book in Paul Adam's fast and furious Max Cassidy thriller series. Teenage escapologist, Max Cassidy, knows for sure that his mother did not kill his father, his father is not even dead . . . But somebody seems very determined to prevent Max from discovering the truth - in fact, somebody wants him dead. In this, the final instalment of the thrilling Max Cassidy series, Max travels across the world; from London to San Francisco to Russia in his quest to be reunited with his family. |
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Fiction
| Publication Details | Notes |
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| KNIFE EDGE 2008 Endeavour | In London, a newly-arrived Kurdish immigrant is brutally murdered by Turkish people-traffickers. The dead man's wife, Irena, the key witness to the killing, flees to East Anglia where she disappears into the murky world of gangmasters and illegal foreign workers. Then three people contract typhoid and the only link between them seems to be the supermarket chain where they bought their food. Joe Verdi, crime correspondent for a national newspaper, goes undercover as a migrant worker to try to find Irena. But he's not the only one looking for her - the Turks are also on her trail. Meanwhile, Joe's colleague, Ellie Mason, is following up the typhoid outbreak. As the two reporters' investigations come together in a heart-stopping climax, the shocking truth about our industrialised system of food production is uncovered. There is a price to pay for cheap food - and sometimes that price is people's lives. |
| PAGANINI'S GHOST: A MYSTERY 2010 Minotaur | This is the sequel to Paul Adam’s novel, SLEEPER. In Paganini’s Ghost, Gianni and Antonio return to investigate more mysterious deaths in a tantalising story of love, deception and greed. If you enjoyed their earlier adventure, you will be delighted by this new tale. |
| ENEMY WITHIN 2005 Little, Brown | Tom Whitehead is a respected modern historian with a secure job at a red-brick university, the father of two in a happy marriage. Then he is arrested and charged with downloading child pornography. He knows his is innocent, but even though he proves he was fifty miles away from his computer when the images were accessed he realises he has to find out who set him up before anyone will believe him. What could he know or do which could be such a threat that it would force someone to manipulate the legal system against him at the highest level. |
| SLEEPER 2004 Little, Brown | Rainaldi was a violin-maker; when he was discovered slumped over his workbench, murdered with one of his own chisels, both the police and his friends are at a loss to discover a motive. Then it comes to light that Rainaldi had believed he was on the track of an infamous Stradivari - twin to one housed in the Ashmolean Museum and subject to 200 years of myth and rumour. With the search from where he left off and plunge headlong into a world where great musical instruments change hands for millions, where forgery is an art form and where murder is often a dealer`s chosen method of negotiation. |
| FLASH POINT 2003 Little, Brown | A tense, fast-paced adventure story, set among the stark beauty and brutal repression of occupied Tibet; a first-class, full-throttle thriller that grips the reader. |
| SHADOW CHASERS 2001 Little, Brown | The ship Maria Vasquez is intercepted and her cargo of contraband cigarettes seized. Through his involvement in this dramatic operation, UK Customs and Excise man Rob Sullivan is drawn into an investigation that will endanger not only his life but the lives of those closest to him as he attempts to identify and bring to book the criminal minds at the head of the powerful smuggling cartel. The difficulty is that these are powerful men with a veneer of legitimacy and friends in all the right places |
| GENESIS II 2001 Little, Brown | A group of eco-terrorists trash fields of GM crops and break into the laboratory of the biotech company who are conducting the trials. Several miles from the site of the field trial, an organic farmer, his falls victim to a mutant form of 'flu. Karl Housman, consultant virologist, realises that this new strain of influenza has the potential to kill more people than the 1918 epidemic, but no-one in authority will take his fears seriously, even when the first few victims die. Soon he realises that a government sponsored cover-up is going on and that the likely outcome is the death of a fifth of the UK's population. . .unless he can find enough evidence to expose the conspiracy. |
| UNHOLY TRINITY 1999 Little, Brown | Andy Chapman, Rome correspondent for a London daily, is intrigued by the brutal murder of a left-wing priest. Turning to investigating magistrate, Elena Fiorini, he discovers she is under pressure not to pry too deeply into the killing. Their investigations lead them into the Vatican's archives. . . |
| TOXIN 1995 Harper Collins | A peaceful demonstration against a new landfill site believed to be used for illegal toxic waste dumping, turns into a pitched battle between police and protesters. Then the organizer of the demonstration is shot dead. The murder investigation takes Mike McLean to a terrifying climax. |
| A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH 1994 Harper Collins | A stormy winter night on the seamier side of Sheffield. Freelance journalist Mike McLean receives a mysterious phone call from small-time burglar Andy Peters. But when McLean goes to meet him, he finds Peters dead, his neck broken. Next morning, ex-con scrap metal dealer James Silvester escapes death by inches when a gunman puts three bullets through the windscreen of his car.. Are the two incidents linked? McLean starts asking questions, and finds there's more than simple murder at the heart of the mystery. |
| AN EXCEPTIONAL CORPSE 1993 Collins Crime | Sheffield businessman Richard Sutton appeared to have died as the result of drunk driving. Except that Sutton was a lifelong teetotaller. And on that same night his office was destroyed by fire. Two more deaths were to follow before the massive fraud behind them emerged. |
Children's
| Publication Details | Notes |
|---|---|
| JAWS OF DEATH: BOOK TWO IN THE MAX CASSIDY SERIES 2011 Random House Children's Books | His father is missing presumed dead and his mother is serving a twenty-year sentence for his murder, but teenage escapologist Max Cassidy is certain everybody is wrong – about both things . . . And now, his quest to find the truth has become very dangerous . . .Max learns that his dad was part of a secret global organisation, the Cedar Alliance. Desperate to find him alive, he seeks help from the other members of the group. But they are scattered across the world – and then they start disappearing one by one . . .Escapology is dangerous but not nearly as dangerous as real life . . . |
| ESCAPE FROM SHADOW ISLAND: THE MAX CASSIDY SERIES 2009 Random House Children's Books | This series of young adult thrillers follows Max Cassidy, a teenage escape artist know as the "Half - Pint Houdini", as he embarks on a quest to find his father after he disappears, and to free his mother after she is wrongfully convicted of killing his father. During his hunt for his father Max ends up on an island off the coast of Santo Domingo, owned by American billionaire Julius Clark, where he finds prisoners being used as guinea pigs in some kind of bizarre scientific experiment. Held captive on the island himself, Max escapes and finds evidence that his father – presumed dead – is still alive. A message to Max from his father refers to The Cedar Alliance. But what is this Alliance? And what does it have to do with Max’s father? Winner of the Salford Children's Book Award 2011. |
