About

The Rock of Gibraltar, home to Spike Sanguinetti

Thomas Mogford is the author of Shadow of the Rock, Sign of the Cross, Hollow Mountain, Sleeping Dogs and A Thousand Cuts.

Thomas studied Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford, then went on to work for ITV, further exploring a love of languages by travelling to Japan and Korea, then Germany, to cover the FIFA World Cups. After switching career and studying Law as a postgraduate at City University, London, he embarked on a series of legal thrillers set in Gibraltar and the wider Mediterranean.

The first book in the Spike Sanguinetti series, Shadow of the Rock, was published by Bloomsbury in 2012. The latest, A Thousand Cuts, is out now.

Thomas’s journalism has featured in the Guardian, Time Out and easyJet Traveller Magazine. His short fiction has been published in Litro, The Field and Notes from the Underground, and been longlisted for the Bristol Short Story Prize.

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