Editing Geoffrey Jenkins (section)

===Early novels===
While working for ''The Star'', he wrote his first novel, A Twist of Sand (1959), which was subsequently translated into 23 languages<ref name="Generations" /> and became a motion picture [[A Twist of Sand|of the same name]] by [[Don Chaffey]] in [[1968 in film|1968]], starring [[Richard Johnson (actor)|Richard Johnson]] and [[Honor Blackman]]. He kept his newspaper job until he had published his third novel.<ref name="Generations" />

Jenkins' 1966 novel ''Hunter-Killer'' was a sequel to ''A Twist of Sand''. ''Hunter-Killer'' opens with the protagonist, Geoffrey Peace RN, faking his own death and funeral at sea, only to clamber aboard a submarine.