<b>Brian Harry Freemantle</b> is an English thriller writer.<br/>He was born June 10 1936, in Southampton England. In several of his books, information is given on the back cover about Freemantle's actions in Viet-nam, when he was able to rescue, by helicopter,many homeless orphans.<br/>He has also written as John Maxwell, Jonathan Evans, Jack Winchester and Richard Gant.