He is a regular contributor to Facta, the respected monthly Japanese news magazine, and he lectures widely on the secret world of intelligence. He was a BBC writer/producer for three flagship BBC programmes: Man Alive, Tomorrow's World and Horizon. He has been a foreign correspondent beginning with the Suez Crisis and ending with the first Gulf War. Since then his books have been published worldwide. He refused the offer of a job at a university in order to accompany a traveling fair for a year: he used those experiences for his novel, Bed of Nails. His first book, completed at the age of seventeen, is the story of a British spy in Russia during World War II, titled Descent Into Danger. With his father in the RAF, he traveled widely and was educated at the Cairo High School, the Maritz Brothers (in Port Elizabeth, South Africa) and, lastly, at Bedford Modern School. He had his first story published at nine years old in a Boy's Own Paper competition. Thomas was born in Wales, in a cemetery keeper's cottage where his grandmother lived.
Gordon Thomas (born 1933) is a Welsh author who has written more than fifty books.
