Christopher Kremmer was born in Sydney and educated at the University of Canberra. His early short fiction was published in literary magazines and won several awards. In 1990 he moved to Asia and spent a decade there writing and broadcasting for the ABC, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. His first book, Stalking the Elephant Kings: In Search of Laos (1997, later republished as Bamboo Palace), won the Qantas/City of Brisbane Prize for Asia-Pacific Travel Writing; his next, The Carpet Wars (2002), was a bestseller published in ten countries and shortlisted for several literary awards. The Chase is his fifth book, and his first published novel. His father was a jockey. Christopher lives with his family in Dulwich Hill, NSW.
