Christian Cameron was born in the US, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1962 and grew up in Rochester, NY and Iowa City, Iowa, as well as Rockport, Massachusetts. He attended high school at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester NY and got an honors BA in Medieval History at the University of Rochester. After University, Cameron joined the United States Navy as an Ensign, serving in VS 31 as an air intelligence officer and gaining his Air Observer wings before going to spend the rest of his military career as a humint officer, first with NCIS and later with DHS in Washington, DC. Cameron left the US military in 2000 as a Lieutenant Commander.While still serving in the Navy, Cameron proposed his first novel with his father (Kenneth Cameron, American novelist and playwright) to Harper Collins UK, which was published in 1996 as 'Night Trap" in the UK and "Rules of Engagement" in the United States. In 2002, Cameron wrote his first solo novel, "Washington and Caesar," published by Harper Collins in the UK and Random House in the US. Also in 2002, Cameron moved to Canada and married his wife, Sarah. They have one child, Beatrice.

The Alan Craik series of espionage thrillers was conceived on a camping trip in the Adirondacks in 1994-5 and the events of the first book are very loosely based on the activities of John Anthony Walker and his son, father and son spies working for the Soviet Union against the United States Navy. Christian Cameron envisioned the books as a modern day Hornblower series, depicting the life of a modern naval officer from his earliest career until his retirement. Over the course of eight novels, Alan Craik changes from a patriotic, enthusiastic and driven young man to a cynical and ambitious middle-aged man who resigns as a Captain to protest the use of intelligence to justify bad political decisions.

The Tyrant series was born in the classrooms of the Classics Department of the University of Toronto, where Cameron decided to write a series of historical novels in 2003. From 2003 to the present, Cameron has written three tyrant novels; Tyrant (2008) Storm of Arrows (2009) and Funeral Games (2010). Two more Tyrant novels are in the works, King of the Bosporus (2011) and Taste of Bronze and Iron (2012). The Tyrant series is set in the time of Alexander the Great and concerns the history of the Euxine area and the inter-relations between the Greeks and Scythians.

The Long War series is Cameron's second historical series, also published by Orion in the UK. Cameron intends to write a series that covers the whole of the Persian Wars from a first person point of view, while deliberately playing with some of the reader's perceptions of both history and the way that 'adventure' or "boy's own" genre fiction is written. The first book, Killer of Men named after Achilles, the man-killer of the Iliad, is due out in August 2010.

As Gordon Kent

Alan Craik series: Novels

• Night Trap
• Peacemaker
• Top Hook
• Hostile Contact
• Damage Control
• The Spoils of War
• The Falconer's Tale

As Christian Cameron

• Washington and Caesar

Tyrant Series: Novels

• Tyrant
• Storm of Arrows
• Funeral Games
• King of the Bosporus (forthcoming)