MTTA 171: Rory Clements

Rory Clements is a British author of historical thrillers. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award in 2010 for his novel Revenger and the CWA Historical Dagger in 2018 for Nucleus.

His latest novel A Prince and a Spy was published on September 7th.

It’s his first novel to be published in America, but it’s the fifth book in his Tom Wilde series.

I had a great chat with Rory about the amount of research he puts into his historical thrillers. How he balances incorporating real historical characters like FDR, Winston Churchill and Prince George into a work of fiction, and a lot more.

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Auhtor influences: Ian Fleming. WIlliam Goldman.

Transcript

Note: I use an automated transciption program, not a human with only a light edit. So some parts might read choppy.

Alan PetersenYou are listening to MEET THE THRILLER AUTHOR, the podcast where I interview writers of mysteries, thrillers and suspense books. I am your host, Alan Petersen, and this is episode number 171. In this episode of the podcast will be meeting Rory Clements, who is a British author of historical thrillers. He won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award in 2010 for his novel Revenge and the CWA Historical Dagger in 2018 for Nucleus. His latest novel, A Prince and a Spy, was published on September 7. It’s his first novel to be published here in America, but it’s the fifth book in his Tom Wilde series. He lives in Dover, England, and I had a great chat with Rory about the amount of research he puts into his historical thrillers, how he balances incorporating real historical characters like Winston Churchill and Prince George into a work fiction and a whole lot more.

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