Alan Judd
Alan Judd is a pseudonym used by Alan Edwin Petty. Born in 1946, he is a former soldier and diplomat who now works as a security analyst and writer in the United Kingdom. He writes both books and articles, regularly contributing to a number of publications, including The Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and The Oldie. His books include both fiction and non-fiction titles, with his novels often drawing on his military background.
Fiction Titles
Charles Thoroughgood novels:- A Breed of Heroes
- Legacy
- Uncommon Enemy
- Inside Enemy
- Deep Blue
- Accidental Agent
- Queen and Country
- Short of Glory
- The Noonday Devil
- Tango
- The Devil's Own Work
- The Kaiser's Last Kiss
- Dancing with Eva
- Slipstream
- Shakespeare's Sword
- ''A Fine Madness''
Non fiction Titles
- Ford Madox Ford
- First World War Poets
- ''The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming And the Founding of the Secret Service''
Awards and honours
- A Breed of Heroes won the 1981 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1990.
- In 1991, he won the Guardian Fiction Award for his book The Devil's Own Work.