Biography

Brian Freemantle was born on June 10, 1936 in Southampton, England, UK. He was a writer, known for A Deadly Game (1979), The London Programme (1975) and A Better Read (1980). He was married to Maureen. He died on December 23, 2024 in the UK.

British novelist, author of over a dozen mystery / detective / espionage novels with series character Charlie Muffin; he also writes under the pseudonyms Jonathan Evans and Jack Winchester.

During a distinguished career on the newspaper as foreign editor, he masterminded the Mail's dramatic airlift to rescue Vietnamese children from Saigon just days before the ravaged city fell to the Viet Cong in 1975.

By the time of his death he had written some 85 books.