Sam Guthrie is the author of the international political thriller The Peak, now a national bestseller. His fiction draws on more than twenty-five years working at the intersection of global politics, diplomacy and corporate power.

A former senior government official, 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.

His novels are character-driven political thrillers that explore how personal ambition, loyalty and moral compromise collide with the machinery of state power. Informed by first-hand experience of political systems, intelligence cultures and international negotiations, his work examines the hidden forces shaping world-altering events in an era of strategic competition and fractured global order.

Sam Guthrie holds a master’s degree in international relations and lives in Australia