Paul Adam is a British writer of novels for both adults and younger readers.

Adam was born in Coventry in 1958, but moved to Sheffield before the age of one. He studied law at Nottingham University, then began a career in journalism, working both in England, in his childhood town of Sheffield

Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...

, and Rome. Since then he has written 11 critically acclaimed thrillers for adults and the Max Cassidy

Max Cassidy

Max Cassidy is the central character in a series of thrillers about a teenage escapologist by British author Paul Adam. The series is aimed primarily at younger readers. By day, 14-year-old Max is a normal schoolboy, living in London, but by night he is a dare-devil performer, nicknamed the...

 series of thrillers for younger readers about a teenage escapologist, the first of which, Escape from Shadow Island, won the Salford Children's Book Award. He has also written film and television scripts.

Adam lived in Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

for many years but now lives in Sheffield with his wife and two children.

Works

• An Exceptional Corpse (1993)
• A Nasty Dose of Death (1994)
• Toxin (1995)
• Unholy Trinity (1999)
• Shadow Chasers (2000)
• Genesis II (2001)
• Flash Point aka Oracle Lake (2003)
• Sleeper aka The Rainaldi Quartet (2004)
• Enemy Within (2005)
• Knife Edge (2008)
• Escape From Shadow Island (2009)
• Paganini's Ghost: A Mystery (2010)

External links

• http://www.pauladam.com/
• Book Reviews