Alan Judd

Alan Judd
Alan Judd
Birth name	Alan Edwin Petty
Born	1946 (age 77–78)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Other work	Diplomat, security analyst, and writer

Alan Judd (born 1946) is a pseudonym used by Alan Edwin Petty.^[1] 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)^[2]

Awards

A Breed of Heroes won the 1981 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted and became runner-up in the 1981 Booker Prize.
In 1991, he won the Guardian Fiction Award for his book The Devil's Own Work.

References

^ Project MUSE - An Interview with Alan Judd Retrieved 2012-01-02.
^ Kieffer, George C. (June 2000). "The Quest For C: Mansfield Cumming and the founding of the Secret Service". RUSI Journal. 145 (3): 75–76. eISSN 1744-0378. ISSN 0307-1847. ProQuest 212131452. Retrieved 3 August 2022 – via ProQuest.

External links

This article about an English novelist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article about an English writer, poet or playwright is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] Project MUSE - An Interview with Alan Judd Retrieved 2012-01-02.

[2] Kieffer, George C. (June 2000). "The Quest For C: Mansfield Cumming and the founding of the Secret Service". RUSI Journal. 145 (3): 75–76. eISSN 1744-0378. ISSN 0307-1847. ProQuest 212131452. Retrieved 3 August 2022 – via ProQuest.

[1]

[2]