Simon Conway

Former soldier Michael Freeman is now a homicide detective in Washington, D.C. As a massive snowstrom engulfs the city, a late night jogger in Rock Creek Par...

The nineteen-twenties, Stalin was on a crusade to turn the whole world upside down, to build it new from the ashes of Imperial Russia. He said: "I want a liv...

The HALO Trust joins the call for action on United Nations' International Day for Mine Awareness, to help raise the profile of countries threatened by landmi...

Simon Conway first stepped into Syria in 2015. In this video he describes the level of devastation he witnessed and why the work of The HALO Trust is so impo...

This year (2018) I visited Sirte in Libya with The HALO Trust and this is what I saw.

In 2012, I found myself stranded in Kabul during a ferocious snowstorm and the idea came to me of telling a story with classic Cold War espionage tropes knoc...

Highlights from War Child's 2013 Policy Forum - 'War - The Next Generation'. Speaker: Author Simon Conway

I wanted to write an espionage novel about revenge and betrayal, about a friendship stretched to breaking point against the battered landscapes of Afghanista...

Hurry. Grab the reader by the throat and force feed. Use good ingredients, a strong plot and true-to-life characters. Be original. Bear in mind that the best...

Human beings that feel no pain and can do without food and sleep for days on end. Sounds improbable? Not to the people at the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Res...

Their eyes shine like night predators in the cramped confines of the stealth helicopter. Among their many genetic enhancements, each soldier has an additiona...

This is an interview I did with British Forces TV on my book 'A Loyal Spy':

Originally featured in The Guardian (23rd October 2005) A pile of sardine tins stamped 'Maroc', discarded beside a desert track, mark the passing of African ...