Jack Curtis is a Pseudonym. As David Harsent he is known as an award-winning poet, and as the librettist for Harrison Birtwistles Gawain. As Jack Curtis he is the author of five previous thrillers which have been translated into fourteen different languages.
Born in Devonshire, the son of a bricklayer, he spent the first ten years of his working life as a bookseller in Aylesbury, while also writing reviews for the TLS, the Spectator, the New Review and the New Statesman. He then worked in publishing and was, for a time Editorial Director of Arrow Books, where he published writers as various as John McVicar and Malcolm Bradbury, Angela Carter and Ruth Rendell. Jack Curtis now divides his time between London and a remote valley in the West Country.

Series

Terrahawks
Terrahawks (1984)

Sam Benbow Western Mystery

Wild River Massacre (1993)
The Flight for San Bernardo (1993)
The Mark of Cain (1994)
Cut and Branded (1994)

Novels

The Man in Place (1982)
Red Knife Valley (1986)
Crows' Parliament (1987)
Eagles Over Big Sur (1988)
Glory (1988)
The Sheriff Kill (1991)
Sons of the Morning (1991)
Texas Rules (1991)
Point of Impact (1991)
Blood Cut (1991)
The Jury On Smoky Hill (1992)
Paradise Valley (1992)
Conjure Me (1992)
Blood to Burn (1992)
Pepper Tree Rider (1994)
Mirrors Kill (1994)
The Quiet Cowboy (1994)
The Quick and the Dead (1995)
No Mercy (1995)
Hide-Out Canyon (1996)
The Confessor (1996)