Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson

Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson, DSO, born in Bristol, England, was a British writer of crime and thriller novels. Prior to World War II, he worked as a Commercial Assistant in the rice trade, starting in London in 1935 and later in Burma from 1938–39. During the war he was commissioned into the Burma Rifles and served with the Special Operations Executive, serving first in India and then in London. He received the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), a military decoration of …