Lee Francis

Lee Francis is a co-author credited alongside bestselling historical novelist Simon Scarrow on Playing With Death (2017), a contemporary thriller that stands apart from the rest of Scarrow's output, which is otherwise dominated by historical and military fiction such as the Eagles of the Empire and Wellington and Napoleon series. Playing With Death is built around a killer who turns his crimes into a public game, a modern-day psychological-thriller premise distinct from the Roman, Napoleonic, and wartime settings that define almost everything else in Scarrow's catalog. The collaboration represents a departure for Scarrow into present-day crime fiction, and Francis's contribution as co-author sits alongside a small number of other one-off collaborative and standalone projects Scarrow has produced outside his major historical series, including the wartime novel Hearts of Stone and a run of serialized adventure novels co-written with T. J. Andrews. Detailed biographical information about Lee Francis independent of this collaboration is limited in the public record.