J.T. Brannan is the author of the Amazon bestselling Colt Ryder action thriller series, the first novel of which - THE THOUSAND DOLLAR MAN - was nominated for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award.

He has also written the bestselling political thriller series featuring Mark Cole, the action-adventure John Lee series and the new Maxwell Knight crime series, as well as the high-concept thrillers ORIGIN (translated into eight languages in over thirty territories) and EXTINCTION (his latest all-action novel from Headline Publishing).

Currently serving in the British Army Reserves, J.T. Brannan is a former national Karate champion and bouncer.

He now writes full-time, and teaches martial arts in Harrogate, in the North of England, where he lives with his two teenaged children.

He is currently at work on his next novel.