Tom Cain

, Male

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

About Me:

I've been a writer for the best part of 30 years, but I'm only just starting out in the whole thriller/crime business. I've written one book and now the question that's driving me nuts - as I contemplate the contractual obligation of a sequel - is: how do you do it all over again?

I Am A:

Writer

Website:

http://accidentmanusa.blogspot.com

Books And Authors I Like:

Authors ... Ian Fleming with whom it all began for me (and how could I have forgotten him before??); Elmore Leonard for effortless, laconic cool and super-stylised dialogue that creates its own form of naturalism; Carl Hiaasen for being so damn funny; Dennis Lehane and James Lee Burke for summing up very different senses of place; Michael Crichton (unfashionably!) for having that knack of hitting hot-button issues (and, forget the movie, Jurassic Park was a fantastic thriller read): Jason Goodwin and George MacDonald Fraser for summoning up the past in very different, but wonderfully evoctaive ways. Oh .. and Lee Child: great author, really decent bloke, helped me a lot as a writer, but also cost me about 12 months in scrapped drafts as I tried to stop myself imitating that brilliant Jack Reacher style - short sentences, no adverbs, no subordinate clauses, etc.

Movies And TV Shows I Like:

24, Sopranos, West Wing, Spooks, Life On Mars ... the usual! Aside from Sky Sports News, of course, to which I am pathetically addicted.

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  L.J. Sellers

  HI Tom
  Thought we might as well be friends here too.
  The second book is scary, especially is people really liked your first and have high expectations. Good luck.

  Mar 27, 2008

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  Manya652

  Hiya! I am a huge fan! I read accident man in May and have been waiting since for the sequel! i have just started reading The Survivor and its brilliant so far! I was not expecting it to be good because sequels are never as good as the first book but you've managed to make me want to do nothing but read. It is a brilliant book and is an absolute page-turner. The way you mix fact and fiction is just plain genius. Not a thing I would change in either of your books. They are perfect. By the I am not saying all this just because my birthday is on 17th January but it's because I really enjoy reading your novels and hope there are many more to come in the future!

  Aug 16, 2008

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  Gaile Hughes

  Did I understand correctly, that in one of your earlier posts that Tom CrUugghh! was even mentioned in the same sentence/breath as Lee Child's 'Reacher' - 'Jack' ie 'The Man' ?  How many FB signatures would it take to prevent that?  I'm up for it.  Personally I'd give Jason Momoa a haircut and have him eyeball the lens, but TC, that would be vomitous on so many levels...

  Mar 25, 2011