About Author

Deb Smith

She doesn’t write spy fiction to glorify espionage, she writes it to expose its shadows. A solicitor by trade and a scholar of everything from Islamic and Russian studies to covert intelligence and terrorism, she knows just how tangled truth becomes when filtered through politics, power, and personal cost.

Her work stands apart for its intellectual precision, emotional honesty, and refusal to sanitize the world of spies. With Legends, she throws a punch at genre norms, giving us a protagonist who is sharp, flawed, female, and entirely unforgettable.

Writing under a pen name, Deb channels her curiosity and contrarian wit into fiction that reads like classified intel. Her thrillers are born from meticulous research and a fascination with moral ambiguity, where right and wrong are less compass points and more battlefields.

When she’s not drafting morally complex heroines or dissecting government ethics, she’s mastering “the art of doing nothing”, which often leads, ironically, to writing. If you’re tired of caricatured spies and cartoonish plots, Deb Smith’s work offers something rare: espionage stories that feel like they could be happening right now, just out of sight.