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Chris Allen

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Born

in Perth, Australia

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Genre

Crime, Contemporary, Thriller

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Ian Fleming, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alistair MacLean, Jack Higgins, [ ...more

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Chris Allen is a former paratrooper, with service in the Australian Army - including attachments to the New Zealand Army, the British Parachute Regiment and deployments to Africa, South East Asia and Central America. He retired at the rank of Major.

In addition to his military career: Chris led security operations for a major international aid agency in East Timor during the 1999 emergency. In the wake of the September 11 attacks of 2001, he oversaw the upgrade of Counter Terrorism First Response measures at Sydney Airport. And in 2003 when protestors painted ‘No War’ on the sails of the Sydney Opera House, he was headhunted to take over the protection of the iconic landmark. In 2008 he was appointed Sheriff of New South Wales, one of Austra Chris Allen is a former paratrooper, with service in the Australian Army - including attachments to the New Zealand Army, the British Parachute Regiment and deployments to Africa, South East Asia and Central America. He retired at the rank of Major.

In addition to his military career: Chris led security operations for a major international aid agency in East Timor during the 1999 emergency. In the wake of the September 11 attacks of 2001, he oversaw the upgrade of Counter Terrorism First Response measures at Sydney Airport. And in 2003 when protestors painted ‘No War’ on the sails of the Sydney Opera House, he was headhunted to take over the protection of the iconic landmark. In 2008 he was appointed Sheriff of New South Wales, one of Australia’s most historic law enforcement appointments.

Today, Chris is a full-time author and lives on the New South Wales south coast with his sons, Morgan and Rhett. You may even see him from time to time cruising up and down the east coast on his treasured Triumph Thunderbird LT!

Chris currently has four novels in his best-selling INTREPID series featuring ALEX MORGAN: DEFENDER, HUNTER, AVENGER and HELLDIVER, which were previously published by Pan Macmillan/Momentum. All four novels are currently available in audio format, published by Wavesound Australia. The INTREPID series has been optioned for film and television.

Chris has recently finished writing INTREPID #5 SHAPESHIFTER, the long awaited return of ALEX MORGAN!

In addition to his INTREPID series, Chris is currently working on an exciting new thriller series featuring former Commando and Australian Secret Intelligence Service veteran BENJAMIN RHETT. In the series, RHETT will be teamed up with former Army Intelligence Officer and current Australian Security Intelligence Organisation agent KAT THOMAS.

The first two novels in the series will be titled EMERALD BEACH and STORM POINT.

Chris is a member of the Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) and an Associate Member of Screen Producers Australia (SPA). ...more

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Average rating: 4.00 · 1,351 ratings · 150 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Defender (Intrepid #1) 3.89 avg rating — 670 ratings — published 2012	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
	Hunter (Intrepid #2) 4.18 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 2012 — 9 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
	Avenger (Intrepid #3) 4.11 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 2015 — 7 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
	Helldiver (Intrepid #4) 4.05 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2015 — 8 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
	Ranger (INTREPID, #4.5) 3.90 avg rating — 68 ratings — 4 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
	Defender of the Faith 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	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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Not many people know this but when I first started work on the manuscript that would eventually become Defender, I was living in the back room of my best friend’s house with no job, no money and no prospects.

I’d been medically discharged from the Army at the ripe old age of 32. Among other things, I’d achieved the rank of Major, was a paratrooper and had served on long term attach

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“To the brave belong all things. - motto of the Celts and appears in Defender: Intrepid 1 and Hunter: Intrepid 2.”
― Chris Allen

tags: action-thriller, celts, inspiration, interpol, intrepid, paratrooping

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“Sydney, too, and now he wanted her sorted out. As if”
― Chris Allen, Defender

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“I’m above ground and vertical. There’s a lot to be said for that,” commented Davenport”
― Chris Allen, Defender

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January/February 2013 Group Read

Jet/Russell Blake

48 votes, 14.0%

The Racketeer/John Grisham

39 votes, 11.4%

The Likeness/ Tana French

31 votes, 9.1%

The Hard Way/Lee Child

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Defending Jacob/William Landay

24 votes, 7.0%

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16 votes, 4.7%

Case Histories/Kate Atkinson

15 votes, 4.4%

Kill Shot/Vince Flynn

12 votes, 3.5%

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11 votes, 3.2%

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10 votes, 2.9%

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9 votes, 2.6%

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Death at Bishop's Keep/Robin Paige

8 votes, 2.3%

The Charter/Gillian Hamer

8 votes, 2.3%

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8 votes, 2.3%

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8 votes, 2.3%

Cop Hater/Ed McBain

8 votes, 2.3%

Quite Ugly One Morning/Christopher Brookmyre

7 votes, 2.0%

Fear Collector/Gregg Olsen

7 votes, 2.0%

Hunter: Intrepid 2/Chris Allen

6 votes, 1.8%

The Return of Captain John Emmett/Elizabeth Speller

5 votes, 1.5%

Viral/James Lilliefors

5 votes, 1.5%

Missing: Presumed Dead /Hawkins James

3 votes, 0.9%

The Barbed-Wire Kiss: A Novel/Wallace Stroby

3 votes, 0.9%

The Fix/Keith Nixon

3 votes, 0.9%

Memoria. A Corporation of Lies/Alex Bobl

2 votes, 0.6%

In Her Shadow/August McLaughlin

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Quiet Ops/Bob Burton

1 vote, 0.3%

Green Power/Charles Vrooman

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Candlemoth/R.J. Ellory

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Coming Home/Roy E. Stolworthy

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Brass Knuckles Larry Matthews

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The Oligarch: A Thriller/G.W. Eccles

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Line in the Sand/C Isaac

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Chris’s Quotes

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

tags: life

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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

6807 likes

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery: A Sherlock Holmes Short Story

tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes

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“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

tags: desk, viewpoint

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“To the brave belong all things. - motto of the Celts and appears in Defender: Intrepid 1 and Hunter: Intrepid 2.”
― Chris Allen