Gordon Thomas
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Gordon Thomas is a Welsh author who has written fifty-three books. The total sales of his works exceed 45 million copies. Thomas lives in Ireland, with his wife, an interior designer. His four children work in various sections of the entertainment industry.
His books of best-selling David Morton novels are being filmed by IAC International as a 22-hour television series to be screened worldwide in 2003. His Gideon’s Spies: Mossad’s Secret Warriors became a major documentary for Channel Four that he wrote and narrated. It followed three years of research during which he was given unprecedented access to Mossad’s key personnel. The book has so far been published in 16 languages. The main source for this book is Ari Ben-Menashe, a self-described former Mossad agent.
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[edit] Major Awards
- 2 Mark Twain Society Awards for Reporting Excellence
- Shipwreck won him the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
[edit] Bibliography
- Journey Into Madness : The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse, by Gordon Thomas, Bantam, 1989, ISBN 0-553-05357-4
- Assassination of Robert Maxwell by Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon.
- Robert Maxwell: Israel's Superspy : The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul by Martin Dillon and Gordon Thomas, Carroll & Graf Publishers, November 2003 ISBN 0-7867-1295-3
[edit] Book clubs
Gordon's works have appeared in:
- The Book of the Month Club
- The Literary Guild Book
- The Readers Digest Book Club
[edit] Film Translations
- Voyage of the Damned won five Academy Award nominations
- Enola Gay won the Emmy Awards Foreign Critics Prize
- Experiences won the Experiences won the Juries and Critics prize at the Monte Carlo Film Festival
