Christopher Farnsworth is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. His work has been published in more than a dozen countries, translated into ten languages, and optioned for film and television.

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Christopher’s next novel will continue the story of Robert B. Parker’s Jesse Stone in Buried Secrets, coming February 4, 2025, and available for preorder now.

He is the author of the Nathaniel Cade series, about a vampire who works for the President of the United States, the John Smith novels about a psychic troubleshooter, and the co-author, with worldwide bestseller James Patterson, of Dead Man Running.

Blood Oath and The President’s Vampire were both named finalists for the Goodreads Choice Awards, while Red, White, and Blood won the Audie Award for Best Audiobook for Thriller and Suspense. Flashmob was named one of the best books of 2017 by Publishers Weekly.


Christopher has also written The Eternal World, a novel about the Fountain of Youth, the graphic novel 24: Legacy — Rules of Engagement, a prequel to the Fox TV series, and Reunion, a story of four former child heroes returning to the small town where they grew up.

Christopher’s non-fiction has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the New RepublicWashington Monthly, and on The Awl.

He is represented by Alexandra Machinist of CAA in New York. For inquiries about film and TV rights to his books, please contact Josie Freedman at CAA in Los Angeles. For television, please contact Howie Tanenbaum at CAA in Los Angeles.

Born and raised in Idaho, he worked as an award-winning investigative and business reporter before selling his first script, THE ACADEMY, to MGM. He now lives in Los Angeles with his family.

He can be reached at chris[at]chrisfarnsworth.com, or you can sign up for his newsletter to receive regular updates on his books.