Frank Gardner is the BBC’s award-winning Security Correspondent, reporting on a wide range of global security and terrorism stories. He has also written three Sunday Times bestsellers: Blood and Sand, Far Horizons, and his debut novel Crisis, published in June 2016.
While filming in Saudi Arabia in 2004, Gardner was shot six times at close range by terrorists but survived with major injuries. With a degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Exeter University, his passion for the Middle East is undiminished.
He was awarded the OBE by HM The Queen in 2005 for services to journalism.
Gardner lives in London and is currently writing the sequel to Crisis.