Tom Cain (author)


David Thomas, better known by the pen name Tom Cain, is an English journalist and author of a series of thriller novels about protagonist Samuel Carver.

Biography

For the first few years of his life he lived in Moscow and has also lived in Washington DC and Havana, Cuba. Cain spent 25 years as a journalist, working for publications such as The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. He was mocked in Private Eye for his frequent contribution to these newspapers, being satirised as "Daily Thomas of the David Mail". In 1989, he became the youngest ever editor of Punch magazine, a role he stayed in for three years.
In 2019, Thomas in the Daily Telegraph about transitioning to become a woman. Julie Bindel, the feminist activist and writer, , pointing out that Thomas was previously a men's rights activist. Bindel described Thomas's 1992 book Not Guilty: The Case in Defence of Men, as "a rant about how feminists have the brass neck to blame men for the terrible things they do to women, rather than themselves." Bindel concludes of Thomas's views on women: "While feminists fight for the right for women to break free of oppressive sex stereotypes, the likes of Thomas claim them for himself."
His writing influences include Lee Child, Ian Fleming, and George Macdonald Fraser.

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