Writing
- Cold Island is set in the near future of a post-Brexit UK.
I had to learn to switch off and ignore the daily round of tragi-comic Brexit news (stranger than any fiction) but I’m very excited about the plot of Cold Island.
- Max is currently expanding the Lieutenant Reim series of spy and crime fiction, which starts in 1983 with Stasi Vice. The novels are narrated by our eponymous anti-hero, a junior officer in the Stasi.
- Previous work includes the East Berlin Series of proto-utopian fiction set in a GDR that didn’t disappear in 1990:
- Stealing The Future is the first in that series; and
- Thoughts Are Free – the sequel;
- Spectre At The Feast – the third and final book in the series.
He has also co-written and edited:
Previous lives
Before becoming a full-time author Max worked as:
- a Stasi and SED (East German Communist Party) files archivist – mostly evaluating and processing records of the opposition movements in the GDR as well as security issues on the Berlin Wall;
- a co-operative development worker;
- and a book seller.
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