**Top 5 Things You Need to Know About Russell Andrews**

Top 5 things you need to know about Russell Andrews

• He’s not one person—he’s two. The name “Russell Andrews” is a bestselling-author mashup of two real writers: Peter Gethers and David Handler. Their thriller Gideon launched the pseudonym into the spotlight.
• Hollywood snapped up his book—before it was even published. Icarus attracted Steven Spielberg’s production company, DreamWorks, and was optioned for a film adaptation before the novel hit shelves.
• His debut novel went on a wild overseas run. Gideon not only hit #1 on Amazon UK in weeks, but became a massive bestseller in Germany and France before gaining traction stateside.
• The FBI and Wall Street collide in his most gripping plot. The Hater (his later work) is a cyber-thriller that tapped into real fears about insider trading and deepfake tech, making publishers call it “prescient.”
• The pen name was a “stress test” for the industry. Gethers and Handler used Russell Andrews to prove that a thriller could go global without a single face on the book jacket—marketable on words alone. It worked.