Kam Majd
Kam Majd is an Edgar® Award–nominated author known for his gripping, high-stakes thrillers.
For more than forty years, he has lived a life defined by precision and danger—thirty-five of those years as a pilot for American Airlines,
most recently serving as a Boeing 777 Captain based in Los Angeles.
Drawing on decades of real-world aviation, global travel, and crisis-level decision-making, Majd brings an unparalleled sense of authenticity and momentum to his fiction.
His work combines propulsive storytelling with emotionally charged human drama, exploring the moral gray zones where loyalty, truth, and survival intersect.
Books
Silent Voices
Silent Voices, Kam Majd's new international thriller, will be published in English in 2026 by Open Borders Press, the newly launched imprint led by acclaimed publisher Christopher MacLehose.
A gripping, female-driven thriller about two sisters caught in a global conspiracy-where truth, loyalty, and survival collide across some of the world's most dangerous landscapes.
In the mayhem of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, journalist Olivia Niles has vanished in the treacherous badlands of that country, while following a lead she refuses to explain to anyone. When her editor forwards a cryptic message to Olivia's daughter, Jessie, she knows something is terribly wrong.
Across Kabul, Jalalabad, and the lawless poppy fields, Jessie uncovers Fatima, the thirteen-year-old sister she never knew she had, and the brutal trafficking network tied to a powerful military-political alliance whose destruction is guaranteed unless the child is silenced.
Now, as Jessie fights to keep Fatima alive, the sisters not only threaten a fragile accord, but promise to redraw political lines at a time neither Washington nor Kabul can afford.
Silent Voices is at once a story of survival, a geopolitical thriller, and a deeply emotional portrait of two sisters who refuse to be silenced.