Berlin born Pierre Frei is best known for his international success "Berlin, a novel", which has been translated into 30 languages, amongst them Chinese and Japanese.
After reading literature and journalism, the author went abroad to report from Cairo, New York, Rome and London as an independent newspaper correspondent.
Amongst his many books are "Interpreter", the memoirs of Hitler's and Mussolini's interpreter Eugen Dollmann, "La Main du Ciel", a Vatican thriller, "Blow up the Tunnel", the story of an IRA attack on the channel tunnel, "I am a Berliner", an account of President Kennedy escaping an assassination in Berlin.
Pierre Frei, an enthusiastic horseman, now lives with his French wife, a well known interior designer, at his château in the south west of France.