The story focuses on the chance romance from two people from opposite sides of the street, Alex and Danny. It is set in central London where on one side of the street is the Secret Intelligence Service and on the other is the gay clubbing headquarters. London Spy, a five-part BBC Two drama series directed by Jakob Verbruggen and starring Ben Whishaw, Edward Holcroft, Charlotte Rampling and Jim Broadbent, is a thriller about a man’s search for the truth in the world of espionage. Tom Rob Smith has also created and produced his first TV spy drama, which will be on our screens later this year. The author's most recent novel, The Farm, was also recently a number 1 bestseller. The film, starring Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, and Noomi Rapace, will be released in cinemas on 17 April.

It was named one of the top 100 thrillers of all time by National Public Radio in the US, and the novel was described by the Times as “the most stylish, intelligent and gripping Cold War thriller since Martin Cruz Smith’s Gorky Park” and by the Observer as “a thrilling, intense piece of fiction”.Ĭhild 44 is set in Stalinist Russia in the 1950s – an official ‘paradise’ - and follows an exiled security officer and war hero, Leo Demidov, who is investigating a series of child murders in an all-powerful state where, supposedly, crime does not exist. This international bestseller, the first in a trilogy, has sold over two million copies worldwide and has won seven awards including the British Book Awards New Writer of the Year, the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, and the CWA Steel Dagger Award, as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. A film adaptation of a best-selling novel by St John’s alumnus Tom Rob Smith will be released next month, and his new BBC spy drama will be on our screens later this year.Ĭhild 44, the award-winning novel by Tom Rob Smith, St John’s graduate and former Harper-Wood student, has been made into a film directed by Daniel Espinosa and produced by Ridley Scott.

London Spy by Tom Rob Smith