Chris Hammer’s best-selling novels are inspired by his decades of writing and producing stories around the world as a journalist.
Chris Hammer’s life changed in 2018 when his first novel, Scrublands, went straight to the top of the bestseller list. Alex Ellinghausen
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Chris Hammer vaguely recalls hearing a commotion behind him before his local translator urgently tapped him on the shoulder.
“We should go, we should go,” Hammer recalls the man imploring.
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