Michael Cordy

Michael Cordy is a British novelist. He was born in Ghana and spent much of his childhood in West and East Africa, India and Cyprus. He was educated in Britain at The King's School, Canterbury, and the universities of Leicester and Durham. After ten years in marketing and advertising, with his wife's encouragement, he gave up a lucrative career to write novels. His first novel, The Miracle Strain, took two years to complete to his satisfaction and was published in 1997. Disney bought the film rights for $1.6 million and the novel reached no. 5 in The Sunday Times Bestseller list. An international success, it has since been published in more than twenty-five languages and over forty countries. Dan Brown published The Da Vinci Code in 2003, and its success may have influenced the re-naming of Michael's first three novels. In spite of publishing six years earlier, he has been criticised, unfairly, of imitating Brown.

Michael lives in London with his wife, Jenny, and their daughter, Phoebe. Currently, he is working under contract on his first screenplay, Crime Zero, having recently sold the film rights option to New line Cinema, a subsiduary of Warner Bros.

He is now the author of six successful novels:

The Messiah Code, originally The Miracle Strain, published 1997.

The Crime Code originally Crime Zero, published 1999.

The Lucifer Code originally Lucifer, published 2001.

The Venus Conspiracy originally True, published 2004.

His fifth book, The Source, published August 2008, has the film rights optioned by Warner Bros. In a splendid adventure set mostly in Peru. It involves Abiogenesis.

In the sixth novel, The Colour of Death, published August 4th, 2011, the main character suffers with an unprecedented form of synaesthesia, in which her five senses merge to form a sixth, and her hallucinations appear to be memories, but not her own.

His seventh novel is already underway.

External links

• Michael Cordy's Website

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