Tony Kent

Tony Kent is a thriller writer, a criminal barrister and a former champion boxer who has been acclaimed as 'the British David Baldacci'. He writes the bestselling Joe Dempsey / Michael Devlin series of political action thrillers which began in 2018 with 'Killer Intent' and continued with 'Marked For Death', 'Power Play', 'No Way To Die' and ‘'The Shadow Network'. His series protagonist Joe Dempsey was dubbed 'The British Jack Reacher' by The Sunday Times.

In 2024 Tony was asked to co-write ‘Revenge of Odessa’, alongside thriller-writing legend Frederick Forsyth. A contemporary-set sequel to the classic ‘The Odessa Files’, Revenge of Odessa will be released in the UK in October 2025 and in the USA in Nov 2025.

In his day job Tony defends the most serious criminal allegations, dealing with the UK government, Scotland Yard, the NCA, MI5, Interpol and the FBI, as well as some of Europe’s most notorious organised crime groups.

In 2023 Tony co-founded the CHILTERN KILLS crime-writing festival in the town of Gerrards Cross, held in aid of youth homelessness charity CentrepointUK. Chiltern Kills will return on Oct 4th 2025.

Tony lives just outside London with his wife Victoria, their son Joseph and their Jack-Russell terrier Maximus.