Returning guest Adam Hamdy is a Sunday Times, Kindle, and international bestselling author and screenwriter.

Adam writes the Scott Pearce series of contemporary espionage thrillers and has written two books with James Patterson, Private Moscow and Private Rogue. He is also the author of the Pendulum trilogy, a trilogy of conspiracy thriller novels. Patterson described Pendulum as "one of the best thrillers of the year," and the novel was a finalist for the Glass Bell Award for contemporary fiction. Pendulum was chosen as book of the month by Goldsboro Books and was selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club.

Prior to embarking on his writing career, Adam was a strategy consultant and advised global businesses in the medical systems, robotics, technology, and financial services sectors.