David Gilman

Scriptwriter David Gilman is best known as the writer of the television series, "A Touch of Frost", which stars David Jason, and he draws on this experience in his first story for children, The Devil's Breath (Puffin, June, readership 10+). The first in a series called Danger Zone, it is a fast-moving adventure whose hero has innumerable close shaves with death.

Unlike Gilman's quintessentially English detective series, however, the story is set in Africa, and the dramatic landscape facilitates the kinds of adventure that many European children would give their eye teeth for.

Although he was born in Northampton, Gilman has spent much of his life in South Africa, having arrived there in the early '60s as an impoverished teenager with few qualifications. He had travelled there with his father to earn a living and to send money back to his family in the UK, but soon found himself hungry and homeless, in search of work, shelter and food.

 

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Featured Books, with extracts by David Gilman

Danger Zone: Ice Claw
David Gilman
As fast-paced as the first, this is a second thrilling adventure for Max Gordon hero of Danger Zone: The Devil’s Breath. Now Max is wanted for murder and he must fight just to stay free but also to survive....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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Danger Zone: The Devil's Breath
David Gilman
Danger Zone is a brand new blockbuster adventure series by debut novelist David Gilman that boys and girls of 9 upwards will lap up with elacrity. Fans of Alex Rider and Young Bond will love the 15 yearold all-action hero,...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Books for Boys | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2007
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