Matt Johnson served for 25 years as a soldier and Metropolitan Police officer. His debut novel Wicked Game – a spy/crime thriller – was published by Orenda Books in March 2016. The sequel Deadly Game, was published March 2017 and the final part of the trilogy, End Game, in 2018.
Wicked Game was short-listed for a Crime Writers Association Dagger award in 2016 and in 2018, Matt was voted at #22 in the WH Smith UK national poll of the world’s best-ever crime writers.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes said of Matt’s books “From the first page to the last, an authentic, magnetic and completely absorbing read.”
In 1999, Matt was retired from the police with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Whilst undergoing treatment, he was encouraged by his counsellor to write about his career and his experience of murders, shootings and terrorism. His novels are the result of that process.
