Knave of Spades: The Playing Card War

A multiple-time New York Times Bestseller and Eagle Award winning Writer, Tony Lee has worked professionally for almost forty years, including a decade in trade journalism and media marketing/creation for radio. In over twenty years in comics he has written for Marvel, DC Comics, Dynamite, Titan Publishing, Markosia, 2000AD and IDW Publishing amongst others, writing a variety of titles and licenses that include X-Men, Spider Man, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Superboy, Starship Troopers, Wallace & Gromit and Shrek. Outside of comics he has written several novels aimed at reluctant readers published by Badger Learning, including Stalker, Mister Scratch, Doctor Jekyll and Little Miss Hyde, Otis, Noticed and Jigsaw Lady, as well as several audio plays for Big Finish, including the Doctor Who Fifth Doctor adventure Rat Trap - and he has adapted both his 'Oliver Twist' sequel Dodge & Twist and Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea into full cast audio dramas with Audible / Amazon, and written a Robin of Sherwood full cast audio drama for Spiteful Puppet / ITV. Under the pen name Jack Gatland, he's currently writing a series of UK based procedural crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Declan Walsh, a second crime series featuring "cop for criminals" Ellie Reckless, a spy thriller series featuring ex-MI5 agent Tom Marlowe, and a "DaVinci Code" style mystery series featuring treasure hunter Damian Lucas. In addition to this, he's released a standalone thriller as Jack Gatland titled The Boardroom, labelled as "Succession meets Phonebooth by way of Twelve Angry Men". As Tony, he's about to release a new urban fantasy series - The Playing Card War - with the first book, Knave of Spades, out in January 2025. Early press for this label it as "John Wick with Magic", and Twelve Tasks, an urban fantasy comedy roadtrip novel. In Film and TV, he’s written for BBC One’s Doctors, and has several films and TV shows in development / production in both the US and the UK. In addition to this, he travels the world with his Change The Channel school tour, aimed at helping reluctant readers into picking up books. Tony is a full member of the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain, the Royal Television Society, the Crime Writer's Association, the Alliance of Independent Authors, and the Society of Authors. He was given Freedom of the City of London in 2023. He currently lives in Kent with his wife, Tracy and his dog, Fosco.