Hamdy was born and raised in London, United Kingdom. He attended the University of Oxford, and graduated with a degree in law. He also holds a degree in philosophy from the University of London. After a number of low-level jobs in the media industry, Hamdy joined the consulting team at Lloyd's of London. From there, he went on to join a niche management consulting firm. Using seed finance provided by the partners in his consulting firm, Hamdy founded a company that developed specialist online payment systems. He raised £7.5m in venture capital to launch the business. The business was later sold to one of the venture capital investors. Between 2000 and 2001, Hamdy co-wrote a weekly diary column for The Guardian on the ups and downs of being an Internet entrepreneur. Hamdy left the corporate world to focus on building a career as a writer. One of his first writing jobs was doing additional story work on. He went on to write comics, and created The Hunter, which launched in December 2007. He also created , another comic series that was published online and in print in 2009. In late 2009 it was announced that Hunter had been optioned for a film by Scarlet Fire Entertainment, with Hamdy providing the script. Hamdy has since been working as a screenwriter, and has written for film producers on both sides of the Atlantic. He recently completed the screen adaptation of number9dream by David Mitchell. Hamdy's debut novel Battalion was published on Kindle on 27 September 2012. Richard Caldwell of review site, The Lottery Party, describes Battalion as "a blistering political techno-thriller". His second novel, Out of Reach, was published by Endeavour Press in May 2015. Hamdy's next novel, Pendulum, has been acquired by Headline and will be published internationally in November 2016. Hamdy produced the feature film, Pulp, which became the first film to ever premiere on the Xbox Video platform. In November 2016 Hamdy published Pendulum - the 1st book in a trilogy. In January 2017 it featured on BBC Radio 2's Book Club. The 2nd book, Freefall was released in November 2017 and the 3rd, Aftershock, was published in November 2018 The Scott Pearce series of thrillers, based around political extremism, commenced with Black 13 in January 2020.
