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Neil Howarth

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Born

Leeds, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.neilhowarth.com

Twitter

NeilH_storyman

Genre

Thriller, Action, Mystery

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Earliest: Alistair Maclean, Robert Ludlum, Jack Higgins, Frederick For ...more

Member Since

November 2011

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I'm constantly, looking for stories, looking for strange, shady, tales that are true, and more important from the story perspective, that could have been true. I'm always treading that fine line between what happened and what could have happened, between people who actually existed and who might have been. I believe it's somewhere in the shadows, in the nooks and crannies between these elements that the great stories are found.

I've always been a scribbler as far back as I can remember. The Doomsday Legacy was my first published novel but not the first I have written. In fact I have a number of half written attempts that have been pushed aside over the years as my 'proper job' demanded more and more of my time.

I remember my first completed I'm constantly, looking for stories, looking for strange, shady, tales that are true, and more important from the story perspective, that could have been true. I'm always treading that fine line between what happened and what could have happened, between people who actually existed and who might have been. I believe it's somewhere in the shadows, in the nooks and crannies between these elements that the great stories are found.

I've always been a scribbler as far back as I can remember. The Doomsday Legacy was my first published novel but not the first I have written. In fact I have a number of half written attempts that have been pushed aside over the years as my 'proper job' demanded more and more of my time.

I remember my first completed novel, 'The Song of the Nightingale'. It was my attempt at the great spy novel, a sort of homage to the 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' (still one of my all-time favourite books). It was a gritty spy story set in Berlin, amidst the chill of the cold war. Unfortunately, as I was typing the last pages, they were bulldozing down the Berlin wall, so that one melted pretty quickly and never saw the light of day. Still, writing is what you are, not what you do. It's never going to go away, so you just keep on trying.

As a young, Naval Radio Officer, then as a computer specialist for a multi-national company, I travelled the world and serviced many military, secret research and laboratory installations. When I started out as a computer engineer, all the military and secret installations in the south of England were on my patch: Porton Down (the Government bio-warfare laboratories), AWRE (Atomic Weapons Research Establishment), and Marconi Space and Research Laboratories, just to name a few. Whilst living in Eastern Europe, I came in contact with the real life Russian Mafiya and shady characters dealing in dodgy 'semi-precious metals' - a euphemism for anything coming out the back door of former Soviet military installations.

With the increase of public surveillance from organizations like the NSA and GCHQ, I often wonder what would happen if they looked at my browsing and download history!!!

I'm still out there looking - secrets, people in the shadows, story gems. I'm constantly searching. If you're interested why not join me on that journey ( www.neilhowarth.com ).
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Neil Howarth's Blog: The Story So Far

Dan Brown meets Robert Ludlum – Quote from my editor.

When I started my thriller novel, The Simeon Scroll, I had no idea about The Armageddon Trilogy. I didn’t even have any thoughts about Joe Fagan as a serial character. In fact, the Simeon Scroll had a rather checkered start. When I sent the first draft to my editor, he was less than complimentary.

‘Why would anyone want to write another Dan Brown book?’

Sam Llewellyn, my editor (and best-selling

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Neil Howarth’s books

Average rating: 4.31 · 328 ratings · 12 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Doomsday Legacy 4.27 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fabled Falcon: A fast paced, lost art, mystery thriller (Fletch, Thriller Series Book 1) 4.26 avg rating — 46 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Simeon Scroll (The Armageddon Trilogy #1) 4.54 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Final Pontiff (The Armageddon Trilogy #2) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vladimir Curse: A lost art, thriller (Fletch, Thriller Series Book 2) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Journey (The Armageddon Trilogy #0.5) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jade Mountain Queen: Joe Fagan - Book 4 (Joe Fagan Thriller Series) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Foo Sheng Key: A Thriller 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Day of Wrath: The Armageddon Trilogy - Book 3 (Joe Fagan Thriller Series) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	January's Child: Robert Walker - Spy Thriller 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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