Andy Briggs

Agent:  Julian Friedmann (Film & TV) and Kate Burke (Books)
Assistant: Sian Ellis-Martin

Biography: Successful scriptwriter with scripts sold to Hollywood and in Europe, including FOREVERMAN which was commissioned by Paramount Pictures (producers: Stan Lee and Robert Evans).

Andy’s first novel for adults, CTRL+S, was published by Orion in 2019.

Praise for Andy Briggs:

Rumley and screenwriter Andy Briggs leave the mystery suitably fuzzy, refusing to speculate or embroider on the scrappy known facts’ – Hollywood Reporter

‘[CROWHURST] reaffirms Rumley’s position among the most interesting, unconventional British filmmakers of the moment’ – Screen Daily

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CTRL + S

Thriller, 416 pages

Orion, July 2019

LOG IN > LOAD WORLD > SAVE HER.

Life in the near future’s not all bad. We've reversed global warming, and fixed the collapsing bee population. We even created SPACE, a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything they desire.

But almost anything isn't enough for some. Every day, normal people are being taken, their emotions harvested - and lives traded - to create death-defying thrills for the rich and twisted.

Now Theo’s mother has disappeared. And as he follows her breadcrumb trail of clues, he'll come up against the most dangerous SPACE has to offer: vPolice, AI Bots and anarchists - as well as a criminal empire that will kill to stop him finding her…

HERO.COM: CHAOS EFFECT

YA Thriller, 288 pages

Oxford University Press, March 2010

Something is not quite right in the Foundation's War Room. The training robots powered by Hero.com are starting to take on a life of their own. A new villain is taking control-NanoMite. This fiendish cyborg is using his nanite swarm to take control of every electric appliance on the planet. Within days he threatens to plunge the entire world back into the Dark Ages.

For Toby, things are not looking so good either. Lorna is keeping a low profile after her relationship with the Dark Hunter is revealed, Emily wants to find their traitrous friend Pete-and Toby has a painful crush on Jen. Worse still, Toby's plan to bring down the Council of Evil is thwarted when he is assigned to train up fledgling heroes.

To add insult to injury, a pair of new Downloaders are now everybody's favourite heroes. A dangerous game of one-upmanship unfolds between Toby and the horribly likeable twins.

But Toby won’t let anything distract him from his main focus. He is determined to bring wrongdoers to justice-even at the cost of betraying somebody close to him…

As civilization teeters on the brink of disater, which heroes will save the day?

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TARZAN: THE SAVAGE LANDS

Children’s, 304 pages

Faber, February 2013

A TREACHEROUS LORD
Lord Greystoke has arrived at the logger's camp in the Congo, and will stop at nothing to find and eliminate his long-lost cousin, Tarzan.

A CRAZED QUEEN
Robbie and Jane set out through the jungle to warn Tarzan, and find themselves trapped in the sprawling ancient city of Opar, where the insane Queen La is running an illegal Coltan mine.

AN EPIC BATTLE
With a volcano threatening to explode, Tarzan, Robbie and Jane must form an unlikely alliance to save themselves. Not everyone will make it out alive…

THE INVENTORY: WINTER STORM

Children’s Sci Fi, 304 pages Scholastic, February 2018

In the fourth book of this high-octane series, the Inventory's final secrets are revealed!

Having learned a troubling truth about himself in the Black Zone of the Inventory, Dev is called back into action to defend the world's greatest store of futuristic tech, and he'll need all the help he can get from his friends.

Someone has stolen Winter Storm, a swarm of powerful biobots, and is using them to infect and control people!