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About Me

Hi. My name's Jon Evans. I'm an author, world traveller, and recovering techie. I write thrillers about twentysomething travellers caught up in danger in exotic places. I also just agreed to script a graphic novel for Vertigo Comics , and I write the occasional screenplay or magazine piece when bored.

News flash: HarperCollins has released my latest novel Invisible Armies in full, for free, on their web site until June 30th. Read it there while you can!

My first novel, Dark Places (called Trail Of The Dead in the UK) won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, and has been translated into German, Dutch, and Japanese. Booklist called my second book, The Blood Price , "fantastic." My latest novel, Invisible Armies , has just been rereleased in mass-market paperback by HarperCollins. My journalism has been published in The Globe & Mail, The Walrus, and Wired magazine.

I'm using MySpace partly for shameless self-marketing; but I'm also going to use it as a photo blog. I've lived and travelled all over the world - visiting some sixty countries across six continents - and a couple times a week, I'll post a picture I've taken in some exotic location, along with a little one-paragraph description/essay.

For far, far more than you ever wanted to know about me, including my text blog, see my official web site .

INVISIBLE ARMIES

Visit the Invisible Armies web page.

"Thought-provoking ... Invisible Armies is an intriguing, pacy read and Mr Evans shows great potential." â€” The Economist

Read the first two chapters or see the trailer

Listen to a podcast interview where I read from and talk about the book.

You might also be interested in this little essay that I wrote about Invisible Armies.

Buy or wishlist it:

BLOOD PRICE

Visit the Blood Price webpage.

"Reading BLOOD PRICE reminded me of being a kid running down a too-steep hill, going faster and faster so that you can barely get your feet in front of you quickly enough to stop, loving every second of it. You can't stop. You don't want to stop.... I wanted to keep reading to find out what the hell happened next." â€” Quill & Quire

Read the first chapter

Buy or wishlist it:

DARK PLACES

"Remember, I told myself only minutes before we discovered the body, this was supposed to be fun."

Visit the Dark Places/Trail of the Dead webpage.

"Easily the year's creepiest crime novel." - The Calgary Herald

"You're hooked ... the characters are delightfully delineated ... beautifully controlled ... (a) pacy thriller for the 21st century." - The Times (UK)

Read the first chapter

Buy or wishlist it:

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My Blog

WanderPix 40: Cecil Rhodes’s grave, Malindzdzi, Matopos, Zimbabwe

August 1998. Cecil Rhodes was quite a guy: at one point he had two countries named after him, was the prime minister of a third, and was the richest man on Earth. He chose to be buried at Malindzidzi,...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:52:00 GMT

News flash!

HarperCollins has released my latest novel Invisible Armies in full, for free, on their web site until June 30th. Read it there while you can!
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:41:00 GMT

WanderPix 39: Ghost bridge, Longsheng, China

Longsheng is home to some amazing and ancient agricultural engineering: a string of 1,000-metre hills long since completely converted to rice paddies. Getting there was an interesting journey that inv...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:27:00 GMT

WanderPix 38: Cemetery murals, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

March 2007, on the road out of Port-au-Prince. This walled cemetery abuts some of the poorest slums in the Western Hemisphere - poorest but full of life and colour, retina-searing taptap buses and pic...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:37:00 GMT

WanderPix 37: Qingzang Railway, Beijing to Lhasa

October 2006. A 48-hour journey through the forbidding Tibetan Plateau along the world's highest railway, which, as you can see, is not sealed against the thin air: instead, extra oxygen is piped into...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:40:00 GMT

WanderPix 36: Khutai, Mongolia

October 2006. A 360-degree panorama photostitched together from nine shots taken from a hilltop in Khutai, a scorchingly beautiful national park about two hours west of Ulaan Baatar. A glorious, glori...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:20:00 GMT

WanderPix 35: Hotel de Ville, Paris, France

July 2006. I lived in Paris for three months in the autumn of 2004, and I adore the city, but despite its pervasive beauty, it somehow always seemed camera-resistant: none of the pictures I ever took ...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:55:00 GMT

WanderPix 34: Fort Tryon, NYC

I spent April of 2006 in New York City, writing my "children's book for adults" Beasts of New York (which I'm currently serializing online.) As part of my research I wandered to faraway corners of the...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:07:00 GMT

WanderPix 33: Nungwi, Zanzibar, Tanzania

October 2005. After a hard day of scuba diving, swimming with dolphins, and banging my head against things; after a long walk along the beaches at the northern tip of the fantabulous island of Zanziba...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:55:00 GMT

WanderPix 32: near Hampi, Karnataka, India

November 2004. Ruined bridge near Hampi, Karnataka, India. I rented a battered old bike in Hampi, followed dirt roads through thousand-year-ruins and surreal, towering, jumbled piles of rocks (which r...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:25:00 GMT