Ben Creed is the pseudonym for Chris Rickaby and Barney Thompson. Chris found his way into advertising as a copywriter and, after working for various agencies, started his own called Everything Different. Barney is a classically trained musician who studied under the legendary conducting professor Ilya Musin at the St Petersburg Conservatory for two years. He is fluent in Russian and is now an editor.
PRAISE FOR A TRAITOR'S HEART: 'Enthralling ... The dark story is leavened with sharp dialogue and flashes of dry wit' Financial Times. 'Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin's Leningrad in all its beauty and misery' The Times. 'A cleverly constructed thriller' Sunday Times. 'A fantastically tense atmosphere, thickly spread with historical detail, makes this a spine-tingling page-turner' * The Sun *