‘We Are All Targets is published 10th January in the US/Canada – pre-order now
My new non-fiction book, We Are All Targets: How Renegade Hackers Invented Cyber War And Unleashed An Age Of Global Chaos is published by Hachette US on January 10th in the US and Canada, and March 14th by Silvertail in the UK and elsewhere.
My new paperback ‘The Last Goodbye’ is out February 2016
The Last Goodbye: A History of the world In Resignations is available at all good bookstores from 6th February 2016. A new, updated and expanded ‘reboot’ of F**k You & Goodbye for the mass market, The Last Goodbye brings the tale of human history’s most misunderstood driver bang up to date with revealing…
‘Outlaws Inc’ film gets one of Hollywood’s hottest directors
Disney/Act of Valor helmer Scott Waugh has signed up to direct the Hollywood feature film of my first international book, Outlaws Inc. Incredibly exciting news in Deadline magazine, as it’s been announced that the director of last year’s sleeper Navy SEAL hit Act of Valor, Scott Waugh, is to direct. The team…
‘F**k You & Goodbye’ is a Waterstone’s Christmas bestseller
Just got this stunning news from the people at Waterstone’s who compile the bestseller lists. F**k You & Goodbye is at No.22 the week before Christmas: Thanks to everyone who’s been so kind about my history of the resignation, and of course everyone who’s bought it. This is the second-best* Christmas present…
WEEKEND FREEBIE: Stream a sample of the new Outlaws Inc. audiobook
Thanks to the lovely people at Audible.com in the States, you can stream an extract of the new Outlaws Inc. audiobook here, for a limited period. The book is read – which, I suppose means I’m played – by Jeff Kafer, a Seattle-born voice actor and veteran narrator and voiceover artist. And he…
News: Film deal for Outlaws Inc.
Well, it’s happened. An 18-month film option on Outlaws Inc has been bought by a major Hollywood production company, Thunder Road Pictures. Thunder Road are the outfit behind big noises like The Expendables, Clash of the Titans (above) and Ben Affleck’s The Town, as well as the new Jeff Bridges/Julianne Moore blockbuster Seventh Son.…
New audiobook edition out now
Audible have just issued a new, unabridged audiobook of Outlaws Inc. It’s narrated by Seattle actor and voice artist Jeff Kafer, and while it’s potentially a little weird to have my voice suddenly become that of a West Coast American, let’s face it, it’s probably for the best. You know, all due apologies to Slough,…
News: Reader’s Digest publishes ‘Outlaws Inc’ in 26 languages as its Autumn adventure read
International literary selection Reader’s Digest has published a condensed version of Outlaws Inc. in its Autumn edition… and brought its international detective story home. The condensed extract is published in Norwegian, Swedish, Slovenian (a taster for the translation is here), Russian, French, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Polish, German, Italian, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese,…
Life imitates ‘Outlaws Inc’, but with added cats: A flight to Afghanistan & a kitten called Il-76
From the “Now-that’s-what-I-call-a-literary-legacy” desk: this news, from Afghan pet rescue charity Nowzad, made my day. It seems a Russian-crewed Ilyushin-76 flight from the Gulf to Afghanistan was being unloaded in Kabul earlier this month when the crew discovered a half-starved feline stowaway. Taken in, first by the crew, then by Nowzad staff, the kitten…
‘Outlaws Inc.’ to appear in abridged form in Reader’s Digest editions worldwide
This autumn’s worldwide editions of legendary book-sampler The Reader’s Digest will see Matt’s latest book ‘Outlaws Inc.’ published in abridged form in a further 16 languages. They will complement the full UK/Commonwealth, US, German, Italian, Finnish and Romanian editions currently published, while in the UK, the updated mass-market paperback edition currently on the shelves…