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David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Ian McDonald, Dave Eggers

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Chris Hannon was the first winner of the New Writing South New Buds award in 2011, completed a Masters in Creative Writing in 2013 and published his first novel, a Victorian adventure novel; Perry Scrimshaw’s Rite of Passage, in 2015.

The first book in the Orca series, spy thriller Orca Rising was released in 2018 (Thistle Publishing) and was shortlisted and a finalist for The People’s Book Prize 2018. Orca Rogue Agent is his third novel.

Chris cares for fruit trees, a young son (not necessarily in that order) and in doing research for the book tried Aikido and now practices regularly at Takemusu Aikido Motril.

You can get in touch with Chris via his website csjhannon.com or on Twitter @csjhannon

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	Orca Rising (Orca #1) 4.42 avg rating — 65 ratings — 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
	Dark Vet by C.J. Hannon, Chris Hannon (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 44 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
	Orca Divinity Fix (Orca Spy series #3) 4.69 avg rating — 32 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
	Orca Rogue Agent (ORCA spy series #2) 4.48 avg rating — 33 ratings — 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
	Perry Scrimshaw's Rite of Passage 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 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 Orca Collection: Books 1 & 2: (Orca Spy Thriller Series) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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The Lacuna

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The Nick Adams Stories

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