Damian Vargas

Damian Vargas writes thrillers with grit, pace, dark humour, and a distinctly European edge.

His stories move through the sunlit shadows of southern Spain, the murky legacy of twentieth-century conflict, and the dangerous places where crime, loyalty, revenge, and survival collide.

A British author living on Spain’s Costa del Sol, Damian draws on the region’s contradictions: luxury and corruption, beauty and violence, history and reinvention. His fiction blends action, suspense, morally complicated characters, and a dry, sometimes brutal sense of humour.

His books include the Costa del Crime thrillers Six Hard Days in Andalusia and Den of Snakes, the historical suspense thriller The Dark Place, and the darkly comic rock-and-roll novel Over The Hill Backwards.

For readers who like their thrillers fast, cinematic, sharp-edged, and just a little bit unhinged, Damian Vargas delivers stories with bite.