Andrew Gary Kaplan is an American

United States

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 author, best known for his spy thriller novels. He worked as a free-lance journalist and war correspondent for the International Herald Tribune

International Herald Tribune

The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international newspaper. It combines the resources of its own correspondents with those of The New York Times and is printed at 38 sites throughout the world, for sale in more than 160 countries and territories...

in Paris, covering events around the world. He served in both the U.S. Army and in the Israeli Army during the Six Day War of 1967. As a student leader in Israel, he helped start the University of the Negev (today, Ben Gurion University of the Negev) and the Israeli Olympic fencing team. He is the author of four international best-selling novels: Hour of the Assassins, Scorpion, Dragonfire (a main selection of the Book of the Month Club in Britain), and War of the Raven. His film writing career includes the 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,...

 film GoldenEye

GoldenEye

GoldenEye is the seventeenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first film in the series not to take story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming...

. The next two books in the Scorpion series, Scorpion Betrayal and Scorpion Winter are scheduled for publication by HarperCollins in 2012.