About
To his many fans around the world, Scott Mariani is best known as the author of the highly popular and acclaimed series of thriller novels featuring ex-SAS hero Ben Hope. He has been described as ‘perhaps the best working exponent of the classic chase thriller’.
Scott was born in Scotland, later studied at Oxford and ended up living there. Deciding after university that a career in academia didn’t suit him, he pursued his ambition to write for a living while working in a variety of different jobs. Eventually leaving Oxfordshire and moving to the tranquil and beautiful setting of rural west Wales, the idea for the Ben Hope character came to him while hiking in the countryside with his dogs. The first Ben Hope book, The Alchemist’s Secret, went on to spend six straight weeks at #1 in the charts and sell publishing rights across the world. Every subsequent book became a bestseller, culminating in Ben Hope’s final outing, The Templar Secret.
Scott’s passion for medieval history has cropped up in several of the Ben Hope books, but in 2024 he decided to take this interest even further by launching an all-new series of historical adventures set during the era of the crusades. The Pilgrim’s Revenge introduces hero Will Bowman, a young Englishman catapulted into a world of warfare and bloodshed after his family are murdered by marauding soldiers en route to the Holy Land.
Scott still lives in west Wales, with his partner and their gang of unruly animals.
