Frederick Forsyth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels, including The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, as well as short story collections and a memoir. A former Air Force pilot, and one-time print and television reporter for the BBC, he has had four movies and two television miniseries made from his works. He is the winner of three Edgar Awards, and in 2012 he won the Diamond Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association, a lifetime achievement award for sustained excellence. He lives in Hertfordshire, England.

Tony Kent is a thriller writer, a criminal barrister and a former champion boxer who has been acclaimed as 'the British David Baldacci'. He writes the bestselling Joe Dempsey / Michael Devlin series of international political and legal action thrillers which began in 2018 with Killer Intent and continued in 2019 with Marked For Death, in 2020 with Power Play and again in 2021 with No Way To Die.

The fifth book in the series, The Shadow Network, released in hardback and on Kindle and Audible in February 2024, achieving both critical acclaim and bestseller status, with series protagonist Joe Dempsey dubbed 'The British Jack Reacher' by The Sunday Times.