Alan Judd

Alan Judd (born 1946) is a pseudonym used by Alan Edwin Petty. Born in 1946, he is a former soldier and diplomat who now works as a security analyst and writer in the United Kingdom. He writes both books and articles, regularly contributing to a number of publications, including The Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and The Oldie. His books include both fiction and non-fiction titles, with his novels often drawing on his military background.

Fiction Titles

Charles Thoroughgood novels:

• A Breed of Heroes (1981 – adapted by Charles Wood as a BBC television film in 1996)
• Legacy (2001)
• Uncommon Enemy (2012)
• Inside Enemy (2014)
• Deep Blue (2017)
• Accidental Agent (2019)
• Queen and Country (2022)

Other novels:

• Short of Glory (1984)
• The Noonday Devil (1987)
• Tango (1989)
• The Devil's Own Work (1991)
• The Kaiser's Last Kiss (2003)
• Dancing with Eva (2006)
• Slipstream (2015)
• Shakespeare's Sword (2018)
• A Fine Madness (2021)

Non fiction Titles

• Ford Madox Ford (1990)
• First World War Poets (Character Sketches) (1997)
• The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming And the Founding of the Secret Service (1999)

Awards and honours

• A Breed of Heroes won the 1981 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.
• Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1990.
• In 1991, he won the Guardian Fiction Award for his book The Devil's Own Work.

References

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