Carsten Stroud
1946
Carsten Stroud is an award winning author and a New York Times bestselling novelist from Canada, who likes to write thriller and mystery books. He is particularly well known for writing the books, Sniper’s Moon and Close Pursuit, both of which have been highly successful and have been included in the NYT bestselling list. Both these books are set around the functioning of the Police Department of the New York City. The two most famous book series written by author Stroud are Rick Bro and Niceville. As of today, author Stroud resides in Thunder Beach, Ontario, Canada, and spends of his day time writing novels and short stories. Stroud was born on July 10, 1946, in Hull, Canada. The major accomplishments achieved by him in his writing career include winning he Arthur Ellis Award in the category of the Best Novel. He has won this award two times in his career in 1991 and 1993 for his books Lizardskin and Sniper’s Moon. One of author Stroud’s books, Iron Bravo, is included by the Sergeant Major of the United States Army in his Recommended List for all the noncommissioned candidates of officer rank. A couple of his other books, Black Water Transit and Deadly Force have had their movie rights optioned by several major producers from Hollywood. And Finally, his other book called Cuba Strait is chosen by Fidel Castro to feature in his special list known as the Forbidden Books.