Colin Forbes

Colin Forbes was the pen name of Raymond Harold Sawkins (1923-2006), a British thriller writer born in Hampstead, London.

He published his first Colin Forbes novel, Tramp in Armour, in 1969, and is best known for the Tweed novels, which follow Tweed, Deputy Director of the Secret Intelligence Service, from Double Jeopardy (1982) to The Savage Gorge, published after his death in 2006. His standalone thrillers include Avalanche Express (1976), the only one of his books adapted for film.

Under his own name and other pseudonyms (Richard Raine, Jay Bernard, Harold English) he wrote earlier novels.