David Morrell is the award-winning author of First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created. He was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

Explore David Morrell's collection of bestselling novels, including the Rambo series, and discover his other works in this comprehensive book archive.

Morrell himself experienced the phenomena when, one day in 1986, he was on a publicity tour in England and picked up the London Times to find a disturbing headline: US Rambo Jets Bomb Libya. Not exactly what he had in mind when he first created that all-too-real conflict between Rambo and Teasle.

David and his author friend Jack Carr. David Speaking to the Southwest Writers Group. David's PBS Interview with Journalist Lorene Mills

Scavenger, Morrell’s follow-up novel, takes us in a harrowing new direction: a desperate high-tech scavenger hunt for a lost 100-year-old time capsule. Frank Balenger, the resolute but damaged hero of Creepers , now finds himself trapped in a nightmarish game of fear and death.

David Morrell is the critically author of First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created. He holds a Ph. D. in American literature from Penn State and was a professor in the English department at the University of Iowa.

A three-time recipient of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, David is as highly regarded for his dark suspense as he is for his thrillers. The two go together. Thrillers are about excitement--horror is about fear. In The Totem, there is plenty of both.

“Morrell has taken a Ludlumesque adventure and pared it to the bone. What follows is a fast-paced adventure that crosses Europe to the Alps and moves easily between past and present. Morrell lets you know just enough to hold your interest, and throughout his writing is crisp and spare.” —Roanoke Times & World News. Backstory

Title: CreepersSeries: Creepers & Scavenger SeriesPublished by: Vanguard PressPages: 354Buy the Book: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Smashwords, Kobo, iTunes, Audible Synopsis On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down hotel on the Jersey shore and prepare to break into the Paragon Hotel. Thåe once-magnificent structure is now boarded up and marked for demolition ...

Award-winning author David Morrell created the character of Rambo in his 1972 novel First Blood. Rambo went on to become one of the twentieth century’s most recognized thriller icons, along with Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, James Bond, and Harry Potter.