Has a doctorate in nuclear defence studies.

Was Chief of Staff and later Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. Was also Deputy Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi.

Has been a BBC TV and radio presenter and a columnist for The Mail on Sunday and Daily Express, and news editor for The Boston Globe in the US during the Watergate scandal.

Winner of Benjamin Franklin Award for best historical novel 2008; shortlisted for C4 Political Novel of the Year 2001.

Playwright, author of The Turning Point, about Winston Churchill and Guy Burgess, and A Family Affair, about the last days in Downing Street of Margaret Thatcher. Currently working on a full-length theatre production about Churchill and his valet.

Lives with his wife and four sons near a church and a pub in Wiltshire. Before you ask, he spends more time in the pub. It has better opening hours.

'Dobbs was clearly put on this earth to write thrillers of the most shamelessly page-turning quality.' Daily Express.

'Britain's foremost exponent of the shock-inducing thriller.' Press Association.

'Perhaps the cleverest man in the country.' Mail on Sunday

'Westminster's baby-faced hit man.' Guardian

'How well he writes.' Michael Portillo, The Times

'Dobbs is the master of his genre.' Times Literary Supplement

'Michael Dobbs does for Westminster skullduggery what Agatha Christie did for the country house murder.' Gyles Brandreth, Sunday Express

'John Osborne was the first of the "angry young men." He had immense talent and a powerful message. Michael Dobbs is yet another "angry young man".' Evening Standard

'His books are seen as forecasts more reliable than weather bulletins, but no less ominous.' The Tatler.

'Being an MP right now feels like living in a Michael Dobbs novel.' Peter Luff M.P.

'Dobbs' books grab because of their authenticity - the man knows his stuff.' The Times

'Dobbs is one of thee brightest and best mass-market storytellers around.' The Scotsman

'Dobbs is without equal as a writer. He succeeds because he is a storyteller of the highest calibre.' Cardiff Western Mail

'The master of political deviousness.' York Evening Press

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