Rob Phayre – Public Speaker and Award Winning Author of Military Thrillers and True Crime Books
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About Rob Phayre
Over his career, as a security professional, Rob has led projects all around the world. From the ice and snow above the arctic circle to the deserts of the Sahara. From the jungles in Africa to the Indian Ocean.
Rob Phayre spent his first career in the British military as a helicopter pilot and commander. He spent time in most of the usual places and some unusual ones. After his military career, and twenty years ago now, Rob moved to Africa. Since then he’s worked for a number of FTSE100 companies as a Security and Crisis Manager. Rob advises business leaders, academic think tanks, and government policy makers on a range of topics including energy security, hybrid security and kidnap for ransom.
In Africa, Rob Phayre led a number of organisations, helping others in the event of a crisis. Rob delivered his first ransom to Somali pirates nearly 20 years ago. Since then he has helped resolve more than 40 hostage incidents both on and offshore across Africa. Two of those ransoms have held the Guinness world records for the largest ransoms ever paid for the release of hostages at sea. You can learn more about organised crime and the kidnap for ransom business model at the How To Deliver A Ransom website.
In 2021 he discovered his passion for writing. His debut novel, The Ransom Drop, won the Audiobookreviwer.com ‘Reviewers Choice’ award, and Best Debut Author 2021. His follow up, Jungle Heist, won a Best Military Thriller award and was runner up for best International Thriller. Rob’s latest fictional work, Reepaman, is a series of standalone free to read fictional short stories. The chilling tales show how an educated psychopath can cause mayhem using Agentic AI and drone technology.
You can connect with Rob through the social media accounts below. He’s always happy to offer an opinion on current security hot topics and to answer questions about his books!
The Response Files – By Rob Phayre
Available in Paperback, Ebook and Audiobook
Reepaman – Rob Phayre’s latest techno-crime thriller now available!
Try before you buy. Read the Reepaman short stories for free.
The Rock Concert was epic. Eighty-five thousand young and beautiful people were crammed into the stadium. They danced and sang with a voice so loud that Reepaman felt the vibrations jangling his very core. He and his team were setting up two hundred meters away in the carpark outside. The flashes from the multi-coloured stage lights, as they leapt over the rim of the stadium, lit up their work. The yellows, greens and blues reflected off the low cloud base, whilst the red laser show tried in vain to slice its way through to the hidden stars above.
Reepaman’s team, all dressed in black, were busy powering up the attack drones…
To read this story and others for free, please go to the Reepaman short story website, or read it on your favourite blog medium through the links below.
Rob Phayre Blog and Articles
Two drinks and a project.
At work, there are four types of colleague, irrespective of ‘rank’ or ‘hierarchy’. I know it’s a simplification, but bear with me because there is a simple test to identify what type of colleague they are. Ask yourself a simple question. Would you have two drinks with them after work, and do you want to…
How Criminals hunt for you Online.
In my latest novel, I’ve taken on the persona of a criminal, and a fairly nasty one at that. In this article you will discover how criminals hunt for you online. Reepaman, the new book I’m writing is written in the first person, and so ‘I’ am getting up to some really quite ugly things.…
GRAI – What is it and how worried do we need to be?
With the evolution of AI, with the potential of both amazing and horrific outcomes, somewhere in the middle is the grey space. A space for GrAI.Continue readingGRAI – What is it and how worried do we need to be?
