CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
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The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger is an annual award given by the British Crime Writers' Association
for best thriller of the year. The award is sponsored by the estate of Ian Fleming
and is given to "best adventure/thriller novel in the vein of James Bond
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Crime Writers' Association
The Crime Writers Association is a writers' association in the United Kingdom. Founded by John Creasey in 1953, it is currently chaired by Peter James and claims 450+ members....
for best thriller of the year. The award is sponsored by the estate of Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...
and is given to "best adventure/thriller novel in the vein of James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
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Winners
2010- Winner: Simon Conway, A Loyal Spy
- Scott TurowScott TurowScott F. Turow is an American author and a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies...
, Innocent - Henry PorterHenry Porter (journalist)Henry Porter is an English author and journalist. He is a writer of thrillers and a regular columnist for The Observer newspaper. He is also the British editor of Vanity Fair....
, The Dying Light - Dan Winslow, The Gentlemen’s Hour
- Lee ChildLee ChildJim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
, 61 Hours61 Hours61 Hours is the fourteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published on 18 March 2010 in the UK and 18 May 2010 in the USA.-Plot summary:... - Mo HayderMo HayderMo Hayder is a British author of crime and thriller fiction.She is the author of eight novels. Her debut, Birdman, was published in January 2000 and was an international bestseller. Her second novel, The Treatment, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 2002 WH Smith Thumping Good Read award....
, Gone - Mike Herron, Slow Horses
- Scott Turow
2009
- Winner: John Hart, The Last Child
- Michael ConnellyMichael ConnellyMichael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
, The Brass VerdictThe Brass VerdictThe Brass Verdict is the 19th novel by American author Michael Connelly and features the second appearance of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael "Mickey" Haller... - Gillian FlynnGillian FlynnGillian Flynn is an American author and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. As of 2009, she has published two novels: Sharp Objects and Dark Places .-Biography:...
, Dark Places - Charlie Newton, Calumet City
- Daniel Silva, Moscow Rules
- Olen SteinhauerOlen SteinhauerOlen Steinhauer is an American novelist who authored The Tourist, a New York Times Best Seller.- Life :Steinhauer was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, and grew up in Virginia. He attended university at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and The University of Texas, Austin...
, The Tourist - Andrew Williams, The Interrogator
- Michael Connelly
2008
- Winner: Tom Rob SmithTom Rob SmithTom Rob Smith is an English writer. The son of a Swedish mother and an English father, Smith was born and raised in London.Smith studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, following his graduation in 2001 he received the Harper Wood Studentship for English Poetry and Literature and continued his...
, Child 44Child 44Child 44 is a thriller novel by British writer Tom Rob Smith, and features disgraced MGB Agent Leo Demidov, who investigates a series of gruesome child murders in Stalin's Soviet Union....
- Mo HayderMo HayderMo Hayder is a British author of crime and thriller fiction.She is the author of eight novels. Her debut, Birdman, was published in January 2000 and was an international bestseller. Her second novel, The Treatment, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 2002 WH Smith Thumping Good Read award....
, RitualRitual (novel)Ritual is a novel by British writer Mo Hayder, published in 2008. It brings back her popular protagonist Jack Caffery, who was previously only intended to star in the author's first two novels, and is the first in a projected five-book cycle.... - Gregg HurwitzGregg HurwitzGregg Hurwitz is a writer of crime novels and comics.-Biography:Gregg Hurwitz is the critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Tower, Minutes to Burn, Do No Harm, The Kill Clause, The Program, Troubleshooter, Last Shot, The Crime Writer, and Trust No One...
, I See You - Michael RobothamMichael RobothamMichael Robotham is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist with the Fairfax Press in Sydney he travelled to London and got a job on Fleet Street in 1986. He later became the best-selling pseudonymous author of ten "autobiographies" of people in the arts, Military and sport...
, Shatter - David Stone, The Echelon Vendetta
- Mo Hayder
2007
- Winner: Gillian FlynnGillian FlynnGillian Flynn is an American author and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. As of 2009, she has published two novels: Sharp Objects and Dark Places .-Biography:...
, Sharp Objects- Alex BerensonAlex BerensonAlex Berenson is a former reporter for The New York Times and author of five novels and a book on corporate financial filings.-Life:...
, The Faithful SpyThe Faithful SpyThe Faithful Spy is a novel by New York Times reporter Alex Berenson. The novel won an Edgar award for Best First novel. It was published in 2006 by Random House and deals with the September 11th terrorist attacks.-Plot:... - Harlan CobenHarlan CobenHarlan Coben is an American author of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past and often have multiple plot twists...
, The Woods - R. J. Ellory, City of Lies
- Michael MarshallMichael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer who also writes as Michael Marshall.-Biography:...
, The Intruders - Michael RobothamMichael RobothamMichael Robotham is an Australian crime fiction writer.Formerly a journalist with the Fairfax Press in Sydney he travelled to London and got a job on Fleet Street in 1986. He later became the best-selling pseudonymous author of ten "autobiographies" of people in the arts, Military and sport...
, The Night Ferry - Karin SlaughterKarin Slaughter-Personal Life:Karin Slaughter is an American crime writer, whose first novel Blindsighted became an international success, was published in almost 30 languages, and made the Crime Writers' Association's Dagger Award shortlist for "Best Thriller Debut" of 2001.Fractured, the second novel in the...
, Triptych
- Alex Berenson
2006
- Winner: Nick StoneNick Stone (author)Nick Stone , is a British thriller writer.-Background:Born in Cambridge to historian Norman Stone and his Haitian wife,...
, Mr Clarinet- Michael ConnellyMichael ConnellyMichael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
, The Lincoln LawyerThe Lincoln LawyerThe Lincoln Lawyer is a 2005 novel, and it is the 16th novel written by American crime writer Michael Connelly. It is the first featuring Los Angeles attorney Mickey Haller, half-brother of Connelly's mainstay detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.... - Jo-Ann Goodwin, Sweet Gum
- Mo HayderMo HayderMo Hayder is a British author of crime and thriller fiction.She is the author of eight novels. Her debut, Birdman, was published in January 2000 and was an international bestseller. Her second novel, The Treatment, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 2002 WH Smith Thumping Good Read award....
, Pig IslandPig Island (novel)Pig Island is a novel by British writer Mo Hayder, first published in 2006. The novel is nominally a thriller which mixes elements of the detective novel with more overt horror influences... - Daniel Silva, The English AssassinThe English Assassin (Daniel Silva novel)Published in 2002, The English Assassin is the second spy novel in the Gabriel Allon series by Daniel Silva.-Plot summary:Art restorer, Gabriel Allon, who also works part-time for 'The Office', a semi-official Israeli intelligence agency, accepts an assignment from an anonymous Zurich banker....
- Martyn Waites, The Mercy Seat
- David WolstencroftDavid WolstencroftDavid Wolstencroft is a Scottish television writer and author. He is best known as creator of the BAFTA award-winning TV spy drama Spooks and its spin-off series, Spooks: Code 9. Wolstencroft was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1969 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, later going on to read history at...
, Contact Zero
- Michael Connelly
2005
- Winner: Henry PorterHenry Porter (journalist)Henry Porter is an English author and journalist. He is a writer of thrillers and a regular columnist for The Observer newspaper. He is also the British editor of Vanity Fair....
, Brandenburg- G. M. Ford, A Blind Eye
- Simon KernickSimon KernickSimon Kernick is a British thriller/crime writer now living in Oxfordshire with his wife and two daughters.Kernick attended Gillotts School, a comprehensive in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Whilst he was a student his jobs included fruitpicker and Christmas-tree uprooter. He graduated from...
, A Good Day to Die - Adrian Matthews, The Apothecary's House
- Kate MosseKate MosseKate Mosse is an English author and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages.- Private life :...
, Labyrinth - Joel Ross, Double Cross Blind
- Daniel Silva, A Death in Vienna
2004
- Winner: Jeffery DeaverJeffery DeaverJeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling...
, Garden of Beasts- Dan FespermanDan FespermanDan Fesperman is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and a published author of several thrillers. The plots were inspired by the author's own international assignments in countries such as Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Germany.- List of works :...
, The Warlord's Son - Joseph FinderJoseph FinderJoseph Finder is an American writer of several thrillers set in a business environment. His books include Paranoia, Company Man, Killer Instinct and Power Play...
, Paranoia - Mo HayderMo HayderMo Hayder is a British author of crime and thriller fiction.She is the author of eight novels. Her debut, Birdman, was published in January 2000 and was an international bestseller. Her second novel, The Treatment, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the 2002 WH Smith Thumping Good Read award....
, TokyoTokyo (novel)Tokyo is a 2004 novel by British crime writer Mo Hayder. It was short-listed for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award, as well as several others... - Stephen LeatherStephen LeatherStephen Leather is an English thriller author who writes pacy "action packed" novels in a style deliberately based upon the work of Jack Higgins and Gerald Seymour. His novels frequently include themes of crime, imprisonment and military service, and lately terrorism and the War on Terror. Settings...
, Hard Landing - Adrian McKintyAdrian McKintyAdrian McKinty is an Irish novelist. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968 and grew up in Victoria Council Estate, Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He read law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford...
, Dead I Well May Be - Daniel Silva, The Confessor
- Dan Fesperman
2003
- Winner: Dan FespermanDan FespermanDan Fesperman is a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and a published author of several thrillers. The plots were inspired by the author's own international assignments in countries such as Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Germany.- List of works :...
, The Small Boat of Great Sorrows- Lee ChildLee ChildJim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
, PersuaderPersuader (novel)Persuader is the seventh book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. After a chance encounter with an old adversary, Reacher finds himself once again obsessed with revenge and in increasingly dire straits in an attempt to settle a decade-long score... - R. J. Ellory, Candlemoth
- Lucretia Grindle, The Nightspinners
- Robert LittellRobert Littell (author)Robert Littell is an American novelist and journalist residing part of the time in France. He specializes in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union....
, The CompanyThe Company (novel)The Company: A Novel of the CIA is a work of fiction written by American novelist Robert Littell and published by Penguin Press in 2002. The plot interweaves the professional lives of both historical and fictional characters in the field of international espionage between June 1950 and August... - Henry PorterHenry Porter (journalist)Henry Porter is an English author and journalist. He is a writer of thrillers and a regular columnist for The Observer newspaper. He is also the British editor of Vanity Fair....
, Empire State - Gerald SeymourGerald SeymourGerald Seymour is a British writer.-Life:The son of two literary figures, he was educated at Kelly College at Tavistock in Devon and took a BA Hons degree in Modern History at University College London...
, Traitor's Kiss
- Lee Child
2002
- Winner: John Creed, The Sirius Crossing
- Tom Bradby, The Master of Rain
- Lee ChildLee ChildJim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
, Without FailWithout FailWithout Fail is the sixth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published by Putnam in 2002.-Main characters:*Jack Reacher: hero, brother of Froelich's former boyfriend Joe.... - Robert CraisRobert CraisRobert Crais is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. He lists amongst his literary influences the authors Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest...
, Hostage - Leif DavidsenLeif DavidsenLeif Davidsen is a Danish author. Educated as a journalist, in 1977 he started working in Spain as a freelance journalist for Danmarks Radio. In 1980 he began covering Soviet news with frequent news reports to Danmarks Radio from Russia. From 1984 to 1988 he was stationed in Moscow. As a...
, Lime's Photograph - CC Humphreys, The French Executioner
- Stephen LeatherStephen LeatherStephen Leather is an English thriller author who writes pacy "action packed" novels in a style deliberately based upon the work of Jack Higgins and Gerald Seymour. His novels frequently include themes of crime, imprisonment and military service, and lately terrorism and the War on Terror. Settings...
, Tango One