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Matt Beynon Rees Author of award-winning Palestinian crime series

Matt Beynon Rees

Biography Matt Beynon Rees is an award-winning crime novelist who lives in Jerusalem. Major authors have compared him to Graham Greene and John Le Carre. The French magazine L'Express called him "the Dashiell Hammett of the Middle East." Born in Wales, Rees has covered the Middle East as a journalist for more than a decade, including six years as Jerusalem bureau chief for Time Magazine. The first of his Palestinian crime novels won the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey Dagger in 2008. His books have been sold to publishers in 22 countries.

Upcoming Works

  • THE SAMARITAN'S SECRET -- out now in the US and UK.
    THE FOURTH ASSASSIN -- number four in the Omar Yussef series, coming early 2010.

University Affiliation

  • BA (Hons) Wadham College, Oxford University
    MA University of Maryland, College Park

Agents

  • International: Deborah Harris, The Deborah Harris Agency
    US: Lisa Erbach Vance, The Aaron Priest Literary Agency

Contact Agents

  • The Deborah Harris Agency
    P.O. Box 8528, Jerusalem 91083, ISRAEL
    Email: deborah@thedeborahharrisagency.com
    Tel: 972 (0) 2 6722143/5
    Calling from the US: 1 914 3721311

    The Aaron M Priest Literary Agency
    708 3rd Avenue
    23 Floor
    New York, New York 10017-4201
    Phone (212) 818-0344

Publishers

  • US: Soho Press (hardcover) New York, Houghton Mifflin Mariner (paperback) Boston
    UK: Atlantic Books, London
    France: Editions Albin Michel, Paris
    Germany: CH Beck Verlag, Munich
    For all others see "Languages" page on mattbeynonrees.com

Contact Publishers

  • Katie Herman, Editor
    Soho Press, Inc.
    853 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
    phone: 212-260-1900

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