Sam Guthrie is the author of the bestselling political thriller The Peak, a critically acclaimed debut shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, one of the United Kingdom’s leading awards for first crime novels.

His fiction draws on more than twenty-five years working at the intersection of geopolitics, diplomacy and corporate power. A former senior government official and diplomat, Guthrie has served as a trade envoy to China and advised governments and major corporations on international strategy, political risk and geopolitical change. He has worked extensively across Europe, the United States and Asia, and spent close to a decade living and working in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Prague.

Guthrie writes character-driven political thrillers that explore how personal ambition, loyalty and moral compromise collide with the machinery of state power. Drawing on first-hand experience of international negotiations, political systems and intelligence cultures, his novels examine the hidden forces shaping world events and the individuals caught within them.

He holds a master’s degree in international relations and lives in Sydney, Australia.