The Tyrant series is set in the time of Alexander the Great and concerns the history of the Euxine area and the inter-relationships between the Greeks and Scythians. From 2003 to the present, Cameron has written six Tyrant novels: Tyrant (2008), Storm of Arrows (2009), Funeral Games (2010), King of the Bosporus (2011), Destroyer of Cities (2013), and Force of Kings (2014). The Tyrant series was born in the classrooms of the Classics Department of the University of Toronto, where Cameron decided to write a series of historical novels in 2003. Over the course of eight novels, Alan Craik changes from a patriotic, enthusiastic and driven young man to a cynical and ambitious middle-aged man who resigns as a Captain to protest the use of intelligence to justify bad political decisions. The Camerons envisioned the books as a modern-day Hornblower series, depicting the life of a modern naval officer from his earliest career until his retirement. The Alan Craik series of espionage thrillers was conceived by the Camerons on a camping trip in the Adirondacks in 1994-1995, and the events of the first book are very loosely based on the activities of John Anthony Walker and his son, father and son spies working for the Soviet Union against the United States Navy. They have one child, Beatrice.įictional works Alan Craik series, written with Kenneth Cameron Also in 2002, Cameron moved to Canada and married his wife, Sarah. In 2002, Cameron wrote his first solo novel, Washington and Caesar, which was published by HarperCollins in the UK and Random House in the US. It was published in 1998 as Night Trap in the UK and Rules of Engagement in the United States. Cameron left the US military in 2000 as a lieutenant commander.Ĭhristian and Kenneth Cameron proposed their first novel while Christian was still in the Navy.

After University, Cameron joined the United States Navy as an ensign, serving in VS-31 as an air intelligence officer and gaining his air observer wings before going to spend the rest of his military career as a human intelligence officer, first with NCIS and later with the DHS in Washington, DC. He attended high school at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, NY, and got an honors BA in Medieval History at the University of Rochester. His best-known work is the historical fiction series Tyrant, which by 2009 had sold over 100,000 copies.Ĭameron was born in the US, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1962, and grew up in Rochester, NY, and Iowa City, Iowa, as well as Rockport, Massachusetts. Christian, a Canadian novelist, was educated and trained as both a historian and a former career officer in the US Navy.

Christian Gordon Cameron (born August 16, 1962) also writes under the pen names Miles Cameron and Gordon Kent (used for those novels written with his father, author Kenneth Cameron).

The Red Knight by Miles Cameron