Christopher hyde author biography

  • SIDELIGHTS: Christopher Hyde is a successful Canadian novelist who worked for a number of media outlets before becoming a full-time writer.
  • Paul Christopher is the pseudonym of a bestselling US novelist who lives in the Great Lakes region.
  • While working as a television interviewer, he specialized in environment, technology, and intelligence.

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    Christopher Hyde Books In Order

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    Publication Order of Jay Fletcher Books

    as A.J. Holt
    Watch Me(1996)
    Catch Me(1999)

    Publication Order of Finn Ryan Books

    as Paul Christopher
    Michelangelo's Notebook(2005)
    The Lucifer Gospel(2006)
    Rembrandt's Ghost(2007)
    The Aztec Heresy(2008)

    Publication Order of John Holliday/Templar Books

    as Paul Christopher
    The Sword of the Templars(2009)
    The Templar Cross(2009)
    The Templar Throne(2010)
    The Templar Conspiracy(2011)
    The Templar Legion(2011)
    Red Templar(2012)
    Valley of the Templars(2012)
    Lost City of the Templars(2012)
    Secret of the Templars(2015)

    Publication Order of Jane Todd WWII Thrillers Books

    The Second Assassin(2002)
    The House of Special Purpose(2004)
    An American Spy(2005)

    Publication Order of Standalone Novels

    The Wave(1979)
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    Author Tags: Fiction

    Born in Ottawa in 1949, Hyde is a screenwriter and freelance investigative researcher whose thrillers are read around the world. Once dubbed a 'Paranoid Prince of Doom' in the New York Times, he wrote his first thriller in about a possible terrorism in British Columbia.

    In The Wave (McClelland & Stewart, 1979) by Christopher Hyde, a crazed Vietnam veteran threatens to blow up the Mica Dam, thereby collapsing a downstream nuclear plant on the Columbia River, unleashing a radioactive wall 745 feet high, drowning cities and turning the Pacific Ocean into a veritable dead sea, etc. The bad guy forewarns the RCMP of the havoc with a phone call from UBC. "If you require proof of my actions, you can check the parking lot above Wreck Beach. I will be waiting below in the gun tower by the sea."

    Before the villan is killed, The Wave features a conscientious CBC journalist named Halleran who says, "The whole Columbia thing was put together when W.A.C. Bennett wa

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    Hyde, Christopher 1949- (Nicholas Chase, Joint Pseudonym)


    PERSONAL: Born May 26, 1949, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; son of Laurence (an author, illustrator, and producer) and Bettye Marguerite (a child psychologist; maiden name, Bambridge) Hyde; married Mariea Sparks, July 23, 1975; children: Noah Stevenson Sparks, Chelsea Orianna Sparks. Hobbies and other interests: Travel, reading, clubs.

    ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Douglas and McIntyre, 2323 Quebec St., Suite 201, Vancouver, British Columbia V5T 4S7, Canada.


    CAREER: Writer. Freelance broadcaster for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Ottawa, huvudstad i kanada, Ontario, Canada, 1966-68, CBC Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1969, 1973-75, CJOH-TV Ottawa, 1970-71, and CBC, Canadian Television (CTV), and Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA), 1971-72; full-time writer, 1977—. Ripping Yarns, Inc., president; Nicholas Chase Productions, partner; Plain Brown Wrapper Puzzles, owner.


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