Shaun Ivory's writing career was kicked off by a one guinea postal order fee from Al Read, the Manchester radio and TV comedian. Moderate success followed with short stories, articles, speeches, gags, odes, poems, and in 1976 he collaborated on a TV episode of The Sweeney (sadly never filmed). In the 1980s he wrote his first novel Chainshot, a techno-thriller which featured a Soviet nuclear submarine commander who had chosen to defect and bring his prototype vessel with him. At last, it seemed Shaun was on the cusp of blockbuster stardom...until his career was torpedoed by a certain Tom Clancy and The Hunt for Red October.
Shaun's first published novel is The Judas Cup a compelling supernatural thriller set in the North York Moors, where the author lives.