Wolf in Shadow - Softcover

Wolf in Shadow by David Gemmell
David Gemmel is a very tall, debonair Brit. I met him at WorldCon in San Antonio and we talked for over an hour about how an author brings passion into his writing. David believes that he's gotten it right when he can read his own work and a charater's plight moves him to tears or anger, when he can feel the character's pain as if it were his own.

I can testify that his passion gushes from his works which are action-packed and charged with high emotions. His books top the best-seller lists in Great Britain and David receives a lot of fan mail. In fact, he had decided to end the John Shannow tales but a flood of readers' letters kept demanding more, and he changed his mind. I guess he appreciates the passion in his fans' letters, too!
                                                --Tim Kochuba, General Manager

David Gemmell was born in London, England, in the summer of 1948. Expelled from school at sixteen for organizing a gambling syndicate, he became a laborer by day, and at night his six-foot-four-inch, 230-pound frame allowed him to earn extra money as a bouncer working nightclubs in Soho.

Born with a silver tongue, Gemmell rarely needed to bounce customers, relying on his gift of gab to talk his way out of trouble. At eighteen this gift led to a job as a trainee journalist, and he eventually worked as a freelancer for the London Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, and Daily Express. His first novel, Legend, was published in 1984 and has remained in print ever since. He became a full-time writer in 1986. David lives with wife, Valerie, and his two children, Kate and Luke, in Hasting, England.