"Jon Evans seems to spend most of his time backpacking in places (Zimbabwe, the Balkans, Iraq) that even the most intrepid of us tend to avoid. Evans also finds time to write strong, politically motivated thrillers." — Chicago Tribune

Jon Evans is an author, journalist, adventure traveller, and software engineer.

His novels have won an Arthur Ellis Award, translation into half-a-dozen languages, and praise from The Economist, The Times, and The Washington Post. Four of them are freely available online, under Creative Commons licenses: Beasts of New York, Night of Knives, Invisible Armies, and Swarm.

Jon's journalism has appeared in Wired, The Guardian, Reader's Digest, The Globe and Mail, and The Times of India, and he writes a weekly column for TechCrunch.

You can find Jon on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Amazon.