Martyn Pig

"Yes. I really like his writing. He is the nearest thing that Britain has got to a Robert Cromier figure. There are two things I particularly like about his work. In the UK this genre is still relatively new and I think that Kevin laid a lot of the groundwork for thrillers for this age group. And now they have become a huge genre. And he does it with an enormous degree of style and class. And the other thing that I really enjoy is that they are thrillers but they are kind of back-to-front thrillers. I am a big fan of Japanese fiction . They do some wonderful things with thrillers. It is sometimes done from the villain’s point of view and Kevin does things like that as well. With Martyn Pig the lad accidentally kills his dad and it is such a great set-up and it is done so well. It was his first book. It is very difficult to surpass and I really admire and like it."