Morrell has 18 million copies of his books in print, and his books have been adapted into 30 languages. He is also the writer behind over thirty bestsellers, encompassing many genres - titles that include the spy novel The Brotherhood of the Rose (1986), which was adapted into a hit 1989 TV mini-series starring Robert Mitchum the creative fiction memoir Fireflies (1988), inspired by the passing of his son the comic books Captain America: The Chosen (2007-08), Spider-Man: Frost (2013-14) and Savage Wolverine: Feral (2014), and his latest works, the Victorian mystery thrillers Murder as a Fine Art (2013), Inspector of the Dead (2015) and Ruler of the Night (2016), all featuring the real-life literary figure Thomas De Quincey. Morrell also wrote the novelisations for RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD, PART II (1985) and RAMBO III (1988). He first introduced Rambo in the acclaimed 1972 novel First Blood, published whilst he was a Professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa. David Morrell is most famous as the creator of John Rambo, the traumatised Vietnam vet anti-hero of Sylvester Stallone's hugely successful five-film franchise.
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