“Just when you think there’s nothing new under the sun in the world of the suspense novel, along comes one hell of a nasty spider called The Straw Men. It’s brilliantly written and scary as hell — a masterpiece.”
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Welcome...
to the webspace of New York Times and internationally-bestselling suspense novelist Michael Marshall, his alter ego, the horror and sf writer Michael Marshall Smith, and alter-alter ego, adventure suspense novelist Michael Rutger.
Michael's work includes the Straw Men thrillers (in television development), modern sf classics like Only Forward (winner of the Philip K. Dick Award) and Spares — along with Intruders, televised by BBCAmerica and starring Mira Sorvino, John Simm, and introducing Millie Bobby Brown. He is the only author to have won the BFS Short Story Award four times.
He additionally works as a screenwriter — and serves as Creative Director at Squircle Productions, working on a slate of film and television projects in production and development, and Ememess Ink.
Links will take you to information about the novels and short stories, a place to find eBooks, news on current projects and events, and his Substack. Icons at the bottom will take you to social sites like Twitter.