The VJ Books Podcast
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The VJ Books PodcastSep 02, 2022
Featured Author of the Month - Philip Fracassi: Anthologies
Philip Fracassi is our SEPTEMBER Featured Author of the Month! In this episode, we explore two of his Anthology collections, featuring dozens of short horror stories exploring thrilling, terrifying, and exciting concepts.
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Lee Goldberg - Movie Land
Lee Goldberg is credited for works such as Flipper, Monk, and Diagnosis: Murder. Most recently, however, he released the 4th installment of his Detective Eve Ronin Series: MOVIE LAND. Set in Malibu Creek State Park, this murder mystery is chock full of references, humor, and excitement. Explore the depths of old Hollywood in MOVIE LAND. Enjoy the podcast!
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Featured Author of the Month - Brad Thor: Rising Tiger
For 20 years, Brad Thor has been signing books for VJ Books. Now, he is our Featured Author of the month! This special episode talks about his new book, RISING TIGER, the 21st book in the Scot Harvath thriller series.
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Featured Author of the Month: Kevin J. Anderson - Sands of Dune
Kevin J. Anderson is our FIRST Featured Author of the month! This is the third and final episode of a multi-part series discussing Kevin J. Anderson's career, and his books releasing in June 2022. This episode focuses on his Dune Anthology, Sands of Dune, co-written with Brian Herbert.
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Featured Author of the Month: Kevin J. Anderson - Clockwork Destiny
Kevin J. Anderson is our FIRST Featured Author of the month! This is the second of a multi-part series discussing Kevin J. Anderson's career, and his books releasing in June 2022. This episode focuses on his new book written with Rush drummer Neal Peart, titled Clockwork Destiny.
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Featured Author of the Month - Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson is our FIRST Featured Author of the month! This is the inaugural of a multi-part series discussing Kevin J. Anderson's career, and his books releasing in June 2022. This first episode focuses on his career as a whole.
To get the latest on Kevin J. Anderson check out his website: https://www.wordfire.com/
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Featured Author of the Month - Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson is our FIRST Featured Author of the month! This is the inaugural of a multi-part series discussing Kevin J. Anderson's career, and his books releasing in June 2022. This first episode focuses on his career as a whole.
To get the latest on Kevin J. Anderson check out his website: https://www.wordfire.com/
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Boyd & Beth Morrison - The Lawless Land
Brother and Sister Boyd and Beth Morrison have teamed up for their debut historical adventure novel, The Lawless Land. Tune in to learn more about the extensive research they put in to develop a story set in a post-black-plague world.
To get the latest on Boyd Morrison check out his website: https://boydmorrison.com/
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Boyd & Beth Morrison - The Lawless Land - AD-FREE
Brother and Sister Boyd and Beth Morrison have teamed up for their debut historical adventure novel, The Lawless Land. Tune in to learn more about the extensive research they put in to develop a story set in a post-black-plague world.
To get the latest on Boyd Morrison check out his website: https://boydmorrison.com/
To get the latest on Beth Morrison follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BethMorrisonPhD
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Getting to Know - Blake Crouch - AD-FREE
Blake Crouch, the author of the Wayward Pines series, Dark Matter, and Recursion, joined us to discuss his extensive career. Learn more about his Apple TV deal, how his latest book Upgrade will be adapted for the screen, and how he conducts research for his sci-fi novels.
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Getting to Know - Blake Crouch
Blake Crouch, the author of the Wayward Pines series, Dark Matter, and Recursion, joined us to discuss his extensive career. Learn more about his Apple TV deal, how his latest book Upgrade will be adapted for the screen, and how he conducts research for his sci-fi novels.
To get the latest on Blake Crouch check out his website: https://blakecrouch.com/
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Erin Young - The Fields - AD-FREE
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Best-selling author Robin Young is back, writing exciting crime novels under the name Erin Young. Her newest book The Fields tells the tale of a police officer in Black Hawk County Iowa. Listen to hear her full interview with VJ Books co-founder John Hutchinson.
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Getting to Know - Philip Fracassi
Prolific Author Philip Fracassi joined us to chat about his life, career, and reading habits.
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Getting to Know - Philip Fracassi - AD-FREE
SPECIAL AD-FREE VERSION
Prolific Author Philip Fracassi joined us to chat about his life, career, and reading habits.
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Erin Young - The Fields
Best-selling author Robin Young is back, writing exciting crime novels under the name Erin Young. Her newest book The Fields tells the tale of a police officer in Black Hawk County Iowa. Listen to hear her full interview with VJ Books co-founder John Hutchinson.
To get the latest on Erin Young check out her website: https://erinyoungauthor.com/about-erin/
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Ask John - What are Tip-In Pages?
We were asked, "What are tip-in pages?" several hundreds of times over the years. We figured it might be easy if we just answered it in a podcast. Enjoy this special Ask John episode!
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Ask John - How did you start reading?
We got one of our founders, John Hutchinson, to chat about how he started reading! Enjoy this bonus episode, we hope you enjoy getting to know us a little bit better.
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Kelley Armstrong - The Deepest of Secrets
New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong believes experience is the best teacher, though she’s been told this shouldn’t apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery, and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is however an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies. Join us as she chats about her new book, The Deepest of Secrets
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T. Jefferson Parker - A Thousand Steps
New York Times bestselling author and three-time Edgar Award winner, T. Jefferson Parker met with us to talk about his new book A Thousand Steps, releasing in January of 2022. A Thousand Steps is a coming-of-age story taking place in Laguna Beach, California in 1968.
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Lindsay Ellis - Truth of the Divine
Renowned film critic, Youtuber, and Author Lindsay Ellis chatted with us to discuss her new book Truth of the Divine. This book is the latest in her Noumena series.
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About Truth of the Divine:
Truth of the Divine is the latest alternate-history first-contact novel in the Noumena series from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times bestselling author Lindsay Ellis.
The human race is at a crossroads; we know that we are not alone, but details about the alien presence on Earth are still being withheld from the public. As the political climate grows more unstable, the world is forced to consider the ramifications of granting human rights to non-human persons. How do you define “person” in the first place?
Cora Sabino not only serves as the full time communication intermediary between the alien entity Ampersand and his government chaperones, but also shares a mysterious bond with him that is both painful and intimate in a way that neither of them could have anticipated. Despite this, Ampersand is still keen on keeping secrets, even from Cora, which backfires on both of them when investigative journalist Kaveh Mazandarani, a close colleague of Cora’s unscrupulous estranged father, witnesses far more of Ampersand’s machinations than anyone was meant to see.
Since Cora has no choice but to trust Kaveh, the two must work together to prove to a fearful world that intelligent, conscious beings should be considered persons, no matter how monstrous-looking, powerful, or malicious they may seem. Making this case is hard enough when the public doesn’t know what it’s dealing with, and it will only become harder when a mysterious flash illuminates the sky, marking the arrival of an agent of chaos that will light an already unstable world on fire.
With a voice completely her own and more than a million YouTube subscribers, Lindsay Ellis deepens her realistic exploration of the reality of a world faced with the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence, probing the essential questions of humanity and decency, and the boundaries of the human mind.
While asking the question of what constitutes a “person,” Ellis also examines what makes a monster.
Andrew Child - Better Off Dead
In this episode, Andrew Child, also known as Andrew Grant, chatted with us to discuss his new book Better Off Dead. This new thriller was co-written by Andrew Child and Lee Child.
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About Better Off Dead:
Jack Reacher is back in a brand-new page-turning thriller from acclaimed #1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.
Digging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning.
Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel.
Dead? No, nothing is what it seems.
The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather die than betray their terrifying leader, who has burrowed his influence deep into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days. The mysterious Dendoncker rules from the shadows, out of sight and under the radar, keeping his dealings in the dark.
He would know the fate of Fenton’s brother.
Reacher is good at finding people who don’t want to be found, so he offers to help, despite feeling that Fenton is keeping secrets of her own. But a life hangs in the balance. Maybe more than one. But to bring Dendoncker down will be the riskiest job of Reacher's life. Failure is not an option, because in this kind of game, the loser is always better off dead.
David Poyer - Arctic Sea
In this episode, long-time VJBooks author David Poyer, chatted with us to discuss his new book, Arctic Sea: A Dan Lenson Novel.
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About Arctic Sea:
New threats surface in the aftermath of WWIII―this time, in the remote waters of the Arctic.
Arctic Sea is the next thrilling entry in David Poyer's critically-acclaimed future war series. In the aftermath of a world war with China, Admiral Dan Lenson is assigned to set up a US Navy base on the rugged North Slope of Alaska, in response to Russian seabed claims that reach nearly to the US coast. Yet the current administration seems oddly reluctant to confront Russian aggression. At the same time, the International Criminal Court is accusing Dan of a war crime.
Back in Washington, Blair Titus is running Jim Yangerhans’s campaign for president, while Dan’s daughter Nan battles disease in a radiation-soaked Midwest. But when Moscow plans to test the Apocalyps, a nuclear powered citykiller torpedo, in the Arctic Sea, Dan is sucked into a perilous covert mission. Will a barely victorious America survive dangerous new threats...both from without, and within?
Spencer Quinn (Peter Abrahams) - Tender is the Bite
In this episode, Peter Abrahams -- who writes under the pseudonym Spencer Quinn -- joined Rodger to chat about Tender is the Bite, a Chet and Bernie novel.
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About Tender is the Bite:
Spencer Quinn's Tender Is the Bite is a brand new adventure in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series that Stephen King calls "without a doubt the most original mystery series currently available."
Chet and Bernie are contacted by a terribly scared young woman who seems to want their help. Before she can even tell them her name, she flees in panic. But in that brief meeting Chet sniffs out an important secret about her, a secret at the heart of the mystery he and Bernie set out to solve.
It's a case with no client and no crime and yet great danger, with the duo facing a powerful politician who has a lot to lose. Their only hope lies with a ferret named Griffie who adores Bernie. Is there room for a ferret in the Chet and Bernie relationship? That's the challenge Chet faces, the biggest of his career. Hanging in the balance are the lives of two mistreated young women and the future of the whole state.
Alan Jacobson - The Lost Girl
In this episode, Alan Jacobson sat down with us to promote the Fanfare Fundraiser for his newest book, The Lost Girl. To learn more about how to support the special edition of this book, and gain exclusive fan perks, visit this link.
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Richard Lange - Rovers
Rodger and Richard Lange discuss his latest book, Rovers.
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Christian Cantrell - Scorpion
Rodger and Christian Cantrell discuss his latest book, Scorpion, a fast-paced tech-based thriller.
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Jack Carr - The Devil's Hand
Jack Carr: prolific author, former Navy Seal, outstanding individual. In this episode, he joins us to talk about his latest book, The Devil's Hand.
To get the latest on Jack Carr, and follow his social media pages, visit his website at www.officialjackcarr.com/
Jeffrey Archer - Turn A Blind Eye
Jeffrey Archer joins us for a riveting discussion about his expansive resume, as well as his latest book, Turn a Blind Eye.
To get the latest on Jeffrey Archer, and follow his social media pages, visit his website at www.jeffreyarcher.co.uk/
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MSB - Jeffery Deaver & John Lescroart | Nothing Good Happens After Midnight
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Nothing Good Happens After Midnight:
The sunsets. The moon takes its place, illuminating the most evil corners of the planet. What twisted fear dwells in that blackness? What legends attach to those of sound mind and make them go crazy in the bright light of day? Only Suspense Magazine knows...
Teaming up with New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, Suspense Magazine offers up a nail-biting anthology titled: "Nothing Good Happens After Midnight." This thrilling collection consists of thirteen original short stories representing the genres of suspense/thriller, mystery, sci-fi/fantasy, and more.
Readers' favorites come together to explore the mystery of midnight. The 'best of the best' presenting these memorable tales, include: Joseph Badal, Linwood Barclay, Rhys Bowen, Heather Graham, Alan Jacobson, Paul Kemprecos, Shannon Kirk, Jon Land, John Lescroart, D. P. Lyle, Kevin O'Brien, and Hank Phillippi Ryan.
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"A unique and imaginative plot filled with witty dialogue and page-turning intrigue. - Catherine Coulter, New York Times Bestselling Author
“Karen Vail is one tough character.” —Kathy Reichs, New York Times–bestselling author
In Hawaii, FBI agent Karen Vail pursues a killer without a profile, in this thriller by the USA Today–bestselling author of The Darkness of Evil.
When Det. Adam Russell of the Honolulu PD encounters the body of a woman in her sixties—the second in recent days to inexplicably die of what seem like natural causes—he reaches out to Karen Vail, the renowned FBI profiler, who hops on the next plane.
But even for someone as fluent in the language of murder as Vail, this case is hard to read. How were these women asphyxiated with no signs of trauma? How can she gather clues or collect evidence when the killer seems to strike during the briefest casual encounters? Is this the behavior of a male or a female perpetrator? And perhaps most terrifying of all, if the deaths appear so natural at first glance, how many victims have already been overlooked?
Now, as something cold and dark lurks under the sunny warmth of this island paradise, Vail must stop a serial killer as elusive as the breeze . . .
Modern Signed Books - Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her
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Andrea Cooper knows everything about her mother Laura. But all that changes when a Saturday afternoon trip to the mall explodes into violence and Andrea suddenly sees a completely different side to Laura. For nearly thirty years she’s been hiding from her previous identity, lying low in the hope that no one will ever find her. But now she’s been exposed, and nothing will ever be the same again. Her the author discuss her thoughts on this astounding book.
Modern Signed Books - Robert Gleason, The Evil That Men Do
Modern Signed Books - Ace Atkins, The Sinners
Modern Signed Books - Alan Jacobson, Dark Side of the Moon
Modern Signed Books - David Baldacci, The Fallen
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About "The Fallen":
The closer Amos Decker comes to the truth, the deadlier it gets in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci's latest Memory Man thriller.
"Baldacci is a wonderful storyteller, and he incorporates wonderful characters into baffling conspiracies. ...he takes on small-town America, capturing both good and bad elements. He demonstrates why these small towns are worth saving. It's a theme he has explored before, but it still has potency and relevance."?Associated Press on The Fallen
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Modern Signed Books - Jeffery Deaver, The Cutting Edge
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About The Cutting Edge:
DANGEROUSLY GOOD. DISTINCTIVELY DEAVER.
"Deaver's approach excels in THE CUTTING EDGE, the 14th novel to feature Lincoln and his assistant, Amelia Sachs... Deaver keeps the level of suspense high as he also examines the gem trade and takes readers on an insider's tour of New York City. Deaver's intelligent characters show their mettle as the twists mount."?Oline Cogdill,South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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Modern Signed Books - Brad Meltzer, The Escape Artist
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WHO IS NOLA BROWN?
Nola is a mystery
Nola is trouble.
And Nola is supposed to be dead.
Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run.
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Modern Signed Books - F. Paul Wilson, Author of The God Gene
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Rick's brother, Keith, a prominent zoologist at NYU, walks out of his office one day and disappears. The only clue they have are his brother's book, which mentions "the God Gene."
A million or so years ago, a gene designated hsa-mir-3998 appeared as if by magic from the junk DNA of the hominids who eventually evolved into Homo sapiens. It became a key player in brain development?specifically creativity?and laymen started calling it "the God Gene." Keith had been tracking this gene through the evolutionary tree, but immediately after running the creature's genetic code, he destroyed all the results and vanished.
Modern Signed Books - Max Allan Collins, author of The Bloody Spur
Modern Signed Books - Karin Slaughter, Author of The Good Daughter
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The stunning new novel from the international #1 bestselling author — a searing, spellbinding blend of cold-case thriller and psychological suspense.
Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind…
Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father — Pikeville's notorious defense attorney — devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night.
Modern Signed Books - Nick Petrie, author of Light It Up
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In the newest action-packed thriller starring war veteran Peter Ash, a well-planned and flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado's mellowest business, but Ash may find there's more to this crime than meets the eye.
Combat veteran Peter Ash leaves a simple life rebuilding hiking trails in Oregon to help his good friend Henry Nygaard, whose daughter runs a Denver security company that protects cash-rich cannabis entrepreneurs from modern-day highwaymen. Henry's son-in-law and the company's operations manager were carrying a large sum of client money when their vehicle vanished without a trace, leaving Henry's daughter and her company vulnerable.
Modern Signed Books - A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window
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It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening . . .
Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors.
Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare.
What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.
Modern Signed Books - Interview with Nelson DeMille, author of The Cuban Affair
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Daniel Graham MacCormick—Mac for short—seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he’s living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, scars that don’t tan, and a boat with a big bank loan. Truth be told, Mac’s finances are more than a little shaky.
After taking a suspicious fishing tournament job for two million dollars, Mac learns is that there is sixty million American dollars hidden in Cuba by Sara’s grandfather when he fled Castro’s revolution. With the “Cuban Thaw” underway between Havana and Washington, Carlos, Eduardo, and Sara know it’s only a matter of time before someone finds the stash—by accident or on purpose. And Mac knows if he accepts this job, he’ll walk away rich…or not at all.
Modern Signed Books - James Rollins, author of The Demon Crown
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To save mankind’s future, the members of Sigma Force must make a devil’s bargain as they join forces with their most hated enemy to stop an ancient threat in this gripping adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins.
Off the coast of Brazil, a team of scientists discovers a horror like no other, an island where all life has been eradicated, consumed, and possessed by a species beyond imagination. Before they can report their discovery, a mysterious agency attacks the group, killing them all, save one: an entomologist, an expert on venomous creatures, Professor Ken Matsui from Cornell University.
Modern Signed Books - Matt Coyle, author of Blood Truth
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A hard-boiled PI novel for fans of Raymond Chandler, Ross MacDonald and Dashiell Hammett.
Rick Cahill has long feared the truth about his own blood?the blood of his father coursing through his veins.
When a long-hidden safe unlocks clues about why his father was kicked off the police force twenty-seven years ago and then spiraled into an early drunken death, Rick determines to find the truth even if it proves the one thing he's always feared.
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Author Boyd Morrison talks about his latest book, Typhoon Fury - MSB
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Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon sail into a perfect storm of danger to try to stop a new world war, in a thrilling suspense novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure.
Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters. The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks, he has stumbled upon one of the most lethal secrets of World War II: a Japanese-developed drug, designed, but never used, to turn soldiers into super-warriors. To stop him, the Oregon must not only take on the rebel commander, but a South African mercenary intent on getting his own hands on the drug, a massive swarm of torpedo drones targeting the U.S. Navy, an approaching megastorm--and, just possibly, a war that could envelop the entire Asian continent.
Author Dan Millman Discusses his latest book: The Hidden School - MSB
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In the long-awaited conclusion to the international bestselling Peaceful Warrior saga, Dan Millman takes readers on an epic spiritual quest across the world as he searches for the link between everyday life and transcendent possibility.
Continuing his journey from Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Dan moves from Honolulu to the Mojave Desert, and from a bustling Asian city to a secluded forest, until he uncovers the mystery of The Hidden School. While traversing continents, he uncovers lessons of life hidden in plain sight—insights pointing the way to an inspired life in the eternal present.
Along the way, you’ll encounter remarkable characters and brushes with mortality as you explore the nature of reality, the self, death, and finally, a secret as ancient as the roots of this world. Awaken to the hidden powers of paradox, humor, and change. Discover a vision that may forever change your perspectives about life’s promise and potential.?
MSB - Sara Paretsky, Fallout
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Before there was Lisbeth Salander, before there was Stephanie Plum, there was V.I. WARSHAWSKI. To her parents, she's Victoria Iphigenia. To her friends, she's Vic. But to clients seeking her talents as a detective, she's V.I. And her new case will lead her from her native Chicago... and into Kansas, on the trail of a vanished film student and a faded Hollywood star.
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MSB - Karin Slaughter, The Kept Woman
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With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are brought in on a case that becomes much more dangerous when the dead man is identified as an ex-cop.
Studying the body, Sara Linton—the GBI’s newest medical examiner and Will’s lover—realizes that the extensive blood loss didn't belong to the corpse. Sure enough, bloody footprints leading away from the scene indicate there is another victim—a woman—who has vanished . . . and who will die soon if she isn’t found . . .
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MSB - Carl Hiaasen, Razor Girl
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When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the wheel of the other car is Merry Mansfield—the eponymous Razor Girl—and the crash scam is only the beginning of events that spiral crazily out of control while unleashing some of the wildest characters Hiaasen has ever set loose on the page.
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MSB - Karen Dionne, The Marsh King's Daughter
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At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an emergency news announcement and realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her.
Helena has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. No electricity, no heat, no running water, not a single human beyond the three of them. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature—fishing, tracking, hunting. And despite her father’s odd temperament and sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too . . . until she learned precisely how savage a person he could be.
More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn’t know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marshland he knows better than anyone else in the world. The police commence a manhunt, but Helena knows they don’t stand a chance. Knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh King—because only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter.
MSB - Jeffery Deaver, The Burial Hour
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#1 internationally bestselling thriller writer Jeffery Deaver returns to the Lincoln Rhyme series, as Rhyme hunts a dangerous killer whose crimes span the Atlantic.
A traveling businessman is snatched off of an Upper East Side street in broad daylight--or so it appears to the eight year old girl who is the crime's only witness. The perp leaves a token at the site of the kidnapping--a miniature noose. A crime scene this puzzling demands forensic expertise of the highest order. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are called in to investigate.
Rhyme and Sachs' investigation takes an unexpected turn when a similar kidnapping occurs across the Atlantic in a small town outside of Naples, Italy. The killer's M.O. is bizarre and frightening. Obsessed with music, the man records the final breaths of his victims, then uses a keyboard sampler to compose an otherworldly tune that is then posted online. The search for the killer will become a complex case of international cooperation--yet not all is as it seems, and soon Sachs and Rhyme find themselves playing a dangerous game with shadowy parties from across the globe.
Mark Greaney, Gun Metal Gray - MSB
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After five years on the run Court Gentry is back on the inside at the CIA. But his first mission makes him wish he had stayed on the outs when a pair of Chinese agents try to take him down in Hong Kong. Normally the Chinese prefer to stay eyes-only on foreign agents. So why are they on such high alert?
Court’s high stakes hunt for answers takes him across Southeast Asia and leads to his old friend, Donald Fitzroy, who is being held hostage by the Chinese. Fitzroy was contracted to find Fan Jiang, a former member of an ultra-secret computer warfare unit responsible for testing China’s own security systems. And it seems Fan may have been too good at his job—because China wants him dead.
Alan Jacobson: The Darkness of Evil - MSB
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THE DARKNESS OF EVIL, the upcoming Karen Vail novel by Alan Jacobson, tells the story of Roscoe Lee Marcks, one of the history’s most notorious serial killers, who sits in a maximum security prison serving a life sentence—until he stages a brutal and well-executed escape. Although the US Marshals Service’s fugitive task force enlists the help of FBI profiler Karen Vail to launch a no-holds-barred manhunt, the savvy and elusive Marcks has other plans—which include killing his own daughter. As the pressure builds to catch Marcks, Vail turns to the retired profiling legend responsible for Marcks’s original capture, who may just hold the key to stopping him.
William R. Forstchen discusses his new book THE FINAL DAY - MSB
Similar authors: Taylor Anderson, William C. Dietz, Newt Gingrich, Hugh Howey
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After defeating the designs of the alleged federal government, John Matherson and his community have returned their attention to restoring the technologies and social order that existed prior to the EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse) attack. Then the government announces that it’s ceding large portions of the country to China and Mexico. The Constitution is no longer in effect, and what’s left of the U.S. Army has been deployed to suppress the rebellion in the remaining states.
The man sent to confront John is General Bob Scales, John’s old commanding officer and closest friend from prewar days. Will General Scales follow orders, or might he be the crucial turning point in the quest for an America that is again united? As the dubious Federal government increasingly curtails liberty and trades away sovereignty, it might just get exactly what it fears: revolution.
Andrew Peterson Discusses his latest book: Right to Kill - MSB
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When a team of commandos—highly skilled and armed to the teeth—tries to kidnap retired CIA station chief Linda Genneken from her home, trained Marine Nathan McBride and his partner, Harvey Fontana, arrive just in time to join the fight. But their well-honed CIA instincts tell them this is only the beginning.
McBride and Fontana set out to learn who ordered the midnight raid, and why. Is it connected to a rescue mission they conducted with Genneken in South America—a mission that nearly killed McBride? Is it related to the string of assassinations happening simultaneously in that area of the world? Or both?
With the help of their CIA contacts and aided by Genneken, the two men unravel a criminal plot with global implications. And as their race to find answers unspools in six supercharged hours, McBride and his team will be tested like never before.
MSB - Mark Greaney, True Faith and Allegiance
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A massive data breach threatens the security of every US intelligence operative around the world. With all assets potentially compromised, Mary Pat Foley, Director of National Intelligence, turns to the men of the Campus to track down and stop the Romanian hackers who have put the information up for sale to the highest bidder.
A small mistake in tradecraft by the Campus makes the breach infinitely worse. Now the data is in the hands of the Chinese government, which is using it to block American military force in the South China Sea.
President Jack Ryan is going to have to make some tough choices; some of which may put his own flesh and blood on the firing line.
MSB - Ben Bova, Apes and Angels.
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Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it.
A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it’s possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Earth is safe.
Now, guided by the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbor intelligent species, determined to save them from the doom that is hurtling toward them.
The crew of the Odysseus has arrived at Mithra Gamma, the third planet of the star Mithra, to protect the stone-age inhabitants from the Death Wave. But they’ll also have to protect themselves.
MSB - Blake Crouch discusses latest books, Good Behavior, and Dark Matter.
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Now a television series starring Michelle Dockery, coming to TNT this fall.
Fresh out of prison and fighting to keep afloat, Letty Dobesh returns to her old tricks burglarizing suites at a luxury hotel. While on the job, she overhears a man hiring a hit man to kill his wife. Letty may not be winning any morality awards, but even she has limits. Unable to go to the police, Letty sets out to derail the job, putting herself on a collision course with the killer that entangles the two of them in a dangerous, seductive relationship.
Good Behavior comprises three interlinked novellas (The Pain of Others, Sunset Key, and Grab), which together form a novel-length portrait of Blake Crouch’s all-time favorite character creation, Letty Dobesh. This edition is the complete Letty Dobesh collection.
MSB - David Baldacci Remarks on his Latest Novel, No Man's Land.
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Two men. Thirty years.
John Puller's mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort Monroe, Virginia, when Puller was just a boy. Paul Rogers has been in prison for ten years. But twenty years before that, he was at Fort Monroe. One night three decades ago, Puller's and Rogers' worlds collided with devastating results, and the truth has been buried ever since.
Until now.
Military investigators, armed with a letter from a friend of Jackie's, arrive in the hospital room of Puller's father—a legendary three-star now debilitated with a deepening senility—and reveal that Puller Sr. has been accused of murdering Jackie.
Aided by his brother Robert Puller, an Air Force major, and Veronica Knox, who works for a shadowy U.S. intelligence organization, Puller begins a journey that will take him into his own past, to find the truth about his mother.
MSB - Dirk Cussler on his latest book, Odessa Sea.
Similar Authors: Grant Blackwood, Clive Cussler, David L. Golemon, James Rollins.
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A desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov Empire. A Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo. Mysterious deaths on the Black Sea linked to modern-day smugglers of nuclear materials.
At the center of it all is Dirk Pitt and his team from NUMA. As the danger escalates, there’s only one man who can avert catastrophe. From London to Washington, from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the action never stops, as Pitt races to prevent the next global war
Modern Signed Books - Kevin J. Anderson on "Eternity's mind"
Similar authors: Terry Goodkind, Brandon Sanderson, Dan Simmons, Tad Williams
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Eternity's Mind, the climactic final volume in Kevin J. Anderson's Hugo-nominated Saga of Shadows trilogy.
The desperate war with the Shana Rei seems lost. All across the transportal network, space is tearing apart, the links between the gateways are breaking down, the fabric of space unraveling, and entire sections of the Spiral Arm are becoming galactic dead zones.
The Shana Rei have infiltrated the transportal network, and desperate populations have to cut themselves off, shutting down their portals, often their only connection with the rest of the Spiral Arm.
In desperation, humans and Ildirans turn to the most unlikely allies, the unpredictable faeros.
Modern Signed Books - Jack Coughlin Discusses his Latest Book, Long Shot
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A top Russian intelligence agent has defected to the West and the only man with whom he will speak is Kyle Swanson, who busted him out of the U.S. Marine Corps Scout/Sniper School years ago. The defector proves to be an Edward Snowden-type gold mine of amazing secrets about the When, Where and How of President Vladimir Pushkin's next grab for lost Soviet territory.
But Swanson, now a special contractor with the CIA, soon begins to believe that it is all fool's gold being sprinkled by Moscow to ignite an open military fight with NATO and the United States.
To stop the madness, Swanson must deliver a kill shot a hundred miles away from a border bridge in Estonia, where a Russian Army waits on the far shore as a government official crosses over with an invitation to invade.
Modern Signed Books - Eric Van Lusbader on his Newest Book, "Any Minute Now."
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Red Rover is broken, finished, dead. The blackest of black ops teams is betrayed on its top-priority mission to capture and interrogate a mysterious Saudi terrorist. One of their own is killed, the remaining two barely get home alive. Then without warning or explanation the mission is shut down.
Ignoring their new orders, Red Rover secretly sets out to find the protected Saudi terrorist, the first step in a perilous journey into the heart of a vast conspiracy that involves the NSA, and an ageless visionary out to create an entirely new way of waging war. A war that will destabilize one of the great super-powers and forever rearrange the balance of power across the entire globe.
Modern Signed Books - Jon Jefferson Discusses his latest work "Without Mercy".
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Forensic anthropologist Bill Brockton has spent twenty-five years solving brutal murders—but none so bizarre and merciless as his latest case: A ravaged set of skeletal remains is found chained to a tree on a remote mountainside. As Brockton and his assistant Miranda dig deeper, they uncover warning signs of a deadly eruption of hatred and violence.
But the shocking case is only the beginning of Brockton’s trials. Mid-case, the unthinkable happens: The deadliest criminal Brockton has ever foiled—the sadistic serial killer Nick Satterfield—escapes from prison, bent on vengeance.
The dangers from all directions force Brockton to question two things on which he’s based his entire career—the justice system, and the quality of mercy—and to wonder: can the two co-exist?
If not, which will Brockton choose in his ultimate moment of truth?
Modern Signed Books - Bill Bass describes his experience as an author
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Similar authors: Alan Jacobson, J.A. Jance, Kathy Reichs
Jefferson Bass is the pen name of Jon Jefferson, writer, and Dr. Bill Bass, renowned forensic anthropologist.
Dr. Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, founded the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility -- the Body Farm -- a quarter-century ago. He is the author or coauthor of more than two hundred scientific publications, as well as a critically acclaimed memoir about his career, Death's Acre. Dr. Bass is also a dedicated teacher, honored as National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Ben H. Winters Discusses Underground Airlines - Modern Signed Books
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Ben H. Winters is an American author, poet, teacher, playwright, and journalist. He grew up in suburban Maryland and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1998. He is the author of nine novels including his latest release, Underground Airlines.
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A gifted young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn't right--with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself.
But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child who may be Victor's salvation. Victor himself may be the biggest obstacle of all--though his true self remains buried, it threatens to surface.
Mary Higgins Clark discusses her latest book, As Time Goes By.
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Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire to locate her birth mother consumes her thoughts. When Delaney’s friends Alvirah Meehan and her husband Willy offer to look into the mystery surrounding her birth, they uncover a shocking secret they do not want to reveal.
On trial for murder is Betsy Grant, widow of a wealthy doctor who has been an Alzheimer’s victim for eight years. When her once-upon-a-time celebrity lawyer urges her to accept a plea bargain, Betsy refuses: she will go to trial to prove her innocence.
Betsy’s stepson, Alan Grant, bides his time nervously as the trial begins. His substantial inheritance hangs in the balance—his only means of making good on payments he owes his ex-wife, his children, and increasingly angry creditors.
Michael McGarrity discusses The Last Ranch, the 3rd book in his prequel series.
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Similar authors: Sandi Ault, C.J. Box, James Lee Burke, Craig Johnson
When Matthew Kerney returns to his ranch in the beautiful San Andres Mountains after serving in Sicily during World War II, he must not only fight to recover physically and emotionally from a devastating war injury, but he must also battle attempts by the U.S. Army to seize control of his land for expanded weapons testing.
Forced off public grazing lands, banned from gathering his cattle on high mountain pastures, and confronted by military police guarding a high security army post on the northern reaches of the range, Matt finds himself at the center of a heavy-handed government land-grab. The reasons behind this surge of secrecy and control become clear when Matt witnesses the boiling, blinding explosion of the first atom bomb at Trinity Site.
As he struggles with an aging, stove-up father no longer able to carry a heavy load at the ranch, an ex-convict intent on killing him, and a failing relationship with a woman he dearly loves, Matt must draw upon all his mental and physical resources to keep his world—and the people in it—from collapsing.
Steve Berry on his latest novel, the 14th Colony
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Similar authors: Will Adams, Raymond Khoury, Chris Kuzneski, James Twining
Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States.
Before escaping, Malone learns that Zorin and another ex-KGB officer, this one a sleeper still embedded in the West, are headed overseas to Washington D.C. Noon on January 20th?Inauguration Day?is only hours away. A flaw in the Constitution, and an even more flawed presidential succession act, have opened the door to disaster and Zorin intends to exploit both weaknesses to their fullest.
Brian Herbert talks about The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma
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Similar authors: Kevin J. Anderson, Greg Bear, Kim Stanley Robinson, Dan Simmons
A revolution has taken over the government of the United States and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes with a great cost. The United States is ruled by a dictatorship and the corporations are fighting back. Joining them are an increasing number of rebels angered by the dictatorship of Chairman Rahma. The Chairman's power is absolute and appears strong, but in The Little Green Book of Chairman Rahma by Brian Herbert, cracks are beginning to show as new weapons are developed by the old corporate powers, foreign alliances begin to make inroads into America's influence . . . and strange reports of mutants filter through the government's censorship.
J.A. Pitts talks about his latest work, Night Terrors.
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Similar authors: Kevin J. Anderson, Jim Butcher, Terry Goodkind, Brandon Sanderson
Magic has a cost. Sarah Beauhall, blacksmith and dragon slayer doesn’t know just how high. Her lover, Katie Cornett, has finally been overwhelmed by this spiraling cost and her spirit is blasted from her body and flung into a world of nightmares and monsters.
As Katie’s coma deepens and her chances of survival fade, Sarah’s spirit must make a journey of its own through a world of crystalline eaters and malevolent spirits who exist only to hunt and to consume.
Night after night Sarah delves beyond the hidden paths, going from crystalline landscapes into the wild lands and lost worlds far beyond the great sea of dreams.
When the spirit of a long dead murderer—known only as the Bowler Hat man—begins gathering an army in the forgotten lands, Sarah discovers that more than eaters and feeders pursue her.
Lisa Gardner discusses the creative processes behind her new novel, Find Her.
Lisa Gardner's Biography and Book List.
Her Website: www.lisagardner.com/
Similar authors: Tess Gerritsen, Lisa Jackson, Iris Johansen, Karin Slaughter
Flora Dane is a victim.
Flora Dane is reckless.
. . . or is she? When Boston detective D. D. Warren is called to the scene of a crime—a dead man and the bound, naked woman who killed him—she learns that Flora has tangled with three other suspects since her return to society. Is Flora a victim or a vigilante? And with her firsthand knowledge of criminal behavior, could she hold the key to rescuing a missing college student whose abduction has rocked Boston? When Flora herself disappears, D.D. realizes a far more sinister predator is out there. One who’s determined that this time, Flora Dane will never escape. And now it is all up to D. D. Warren tofind her.
Jeffery Deaver discusses Steel Kiss
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Author Paul Vidich talks about his debut novel AN HONORABLE MAN
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Best selling author Jon Land shares his newest book, Takedown
Jeff Buck thought he'd seen it all. Twenty years working undercover in the netherworld of drugs had left him burned out and grateful to assume the quiet job of police chief in the small town of Reminderville, Ohio. That is, until a simple domestic assault case turns out to have links to the murder of a drug runner in upstate New York and a syndicate smuggling billions of dollars in drugs across the U.S.-Canada border.
As Buck reluctantly plunges back into his old world of death and deceit, he uncovers a complex chain linking the Hells Angels to the Russian Mafia in a plot to use Native American tribal land to smuggle their deadly wares into the United States. Buck's efforts lead to an unprecedented slew of indictments on both sides of the border and prison terms for even the kingpins, toppling an empire once deemed invincible.
Jon Land Book List, Bibliography and Biography
His website: www.jonlandbooks.com
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Author Glen Erik Hamilton talks with us about his newest novel HARD COLD WINTER
About the book HARD COLD WINTER:
”Hamilton renders the ample violent action effectively, but the best parts of the story are the vignettes he intersperses depicting Van and Elana’s criminal exploits when they were 17.” (Publishers Weekly)
“Hamilton skillfully creates a well-oiled situation with a direct writing style... brimming with action, conflict, and realistic and compelling characters. Readers of the first book will be delighted with the backstory, and aficionados of the genre will eat this one up.” (Library Journal (starred review)
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Best selling author Thomas Perry talks about Forty Thieves
About the Author:
Perry is the author of 20 novels including the Jane Whitefield series (Vanishing Act, Dance for the Dead, Shadow Woman, The Face Changers, Blood Money, Runner, and Poison Flower), Death Benefits, and Pursuit, the first recipient of the Gumshoe Award for best novel.
He won the Edgar for The Butcher’s Boy, and Metzger’s Dog was a New York Times Notable Book. The Independent Mystery Booksellers’ Association included Vanishing Act in its “100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century,” and Nightlife was a New York Times bestseller.
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“Sardonic humor is rare in American mysteries. It is the kind of humor that creeps up on you and suddenly your reaction is a wry smile as you read the double-edged melodrama which abounds in Thomas Perry’s work.”—Washington Times
“Propulsive, darkly humorous . . . As the likable, series-worthy Abels struggle to survive at least long enough to solve [the] murder, Perry tosses in several hairpin plot twists that culminate in a satisfyingly surprising conclusion.”—Publishers Weekly
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The Art of War author Stephen Coonts tells it like it is
Listen in as he and our host Rodger Nichols talk about Coonts' new novel The Art of War and his first novel, Flight of the Intruder, published in September 1986 by the Naval Institute Press, and spent 28 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists in hardcover. A motion picture based on this novel, with the same title, was released nationwide in January 1991
Book Synopsis: The Chinese dragon is flexing its muscles. As its military begins to prey on neighbors in the South China Sea, attacking fishing vessels and scheming to seize natural resources, the US goes on high alert. But a far more ominous danger lurks closer to home: a Chinese sleeper cell has planted a nuclear weapon in the harbor at Norfolk, Virginia, the biggest naval base on the planet. The target: a secret rendezvous of the Atlantic Fleet aircraft carriers and their battle groups. When the CIA director is assassinated and Jake Grafton is appointed to take his place, he gets wind of the conspiracy, but has no idea when or where the attack will occur. In the meantime, a series of assassinations, including an attempt on the life of the President, shake the country and deliberately mask a far more sinister objective. Can Jake Grafton and his right hand man, Tommy Carmellini, stop the plot to destroy the US Navy?
Author website: www.coonts.com/
Author biography, bibliography and awards list: bit.ly/1oZcmt4
Listen in to debut author Matt Gallagher about his new book Youngblood
"Mr. Gallagher has a keen reportorial eye, a distinctive voice and an instinctive sympathy for the people he is writing about, and he uses those gifts here to immerse us in his characters's lives...With Youngblood, he has written an urgent and deeply moving novel." (The New York Times)
"Gallagher’s riveting combination of gritty military jargon, sharply drawn characters, and suspenseful story line adds up to one of the best modern war novels since Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam classic, The Things They Carried (1990). Highly recommended." (Booklist, starred review)
“A complex tale about the Iraq War, intrigue, love, and survival. Gallagher follows up on his successful first book, the memoir Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War (2010), with a smart Iraq War novel that adds something new to the genre—new genres. Gallagher subtly weaves throughout this excellent, brutal tale intrigue, a mystery, and two compelling love stories… A fresh twist on the Iraq War novel adds depth to this burgeoning genre.” (Kirkus, starred review)
Twitter: @MattGallagher0
Biography, bibliography: bit.ly/248NaR2
Discussing his new book False Positive with Andrew Grant
False Positive Book Synopsis: Alabama detective Cooper Devereaux makes no apologies for his luxe lifestyle or the way he does his job. Most cops haven’t lived the kind of life he has—starting out as an orphan, raised by a grizzled cop savior—and most don’t use his kind of high-risk tactics. But he may have met his match in fellow detective Jan Loflin, who’s fresh off a long undercover stint in Vice when they’re partnered on a case that will test them both beyond their direst nightmares.
About the author:
Andrew Grant's debut novel, Even, introduces British Royal Navy-trained agent David Trevellyan. "It's a pleasure observing Trevellyan's methods. You have to love his philosophy. Take, for example, his approach to finding a needle in a haystack: "So a needle's in there, and we need it back. No problem. Get some matches. Hay burns. Needles don't." This is a man who prefers the direct approach." (Book Reporter)
Author website: www.andrewgrantbooks.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/andrewgrantauthor?ref=mf
Twitter: twitter.com/Andrew_Grant
Author page (bibliography and biography): bit.ly/1oEVN5D
Author William Bernhardt Talks with Modern Signed Books host Rodger Nichols
Bernhardt is the only writer to have received the Southern Writers Guild’s Gold Medal Award, the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award (University of Pennsylvania) and the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award (Oklahoma State), which is given "in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large." In addition to his novels, he has written plays, a musical (book and music), humor, nonfiction, children books, biography, poetry, and puzzles.
In his spare time, he has enjoyed surfing, digging for dinosaurs, trekking through the Himalayas, paragliding, scuba diving, caving, zip-lining over the canopy of the Costa Rican rain forest, jumping out of an airplane at 10,000 feet, and in 2013, becoming a Jeopardy champion. OSU named him “Oklahoma’s Renaissance Man”.
If you are a fan of authors imilar authors: David Baldacci, Linda Fairstein, John Grisham, Phillip Margolin, Steve Martini, Brad Meltzer, you'll want to listen in on this fun and engaging interview!
William Bernhardt's website and to submit to Conclave: A Literary Magazin go to: www.williambernhardt.com
His Twitter: wbernhardt
See his author page, biography, bibliography: bit.ly/20HHnPP
For signed editions of his books: www.vjbooks.com
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Acclaimed contemporary American crime writer Author Lawrence Block joins us
Block's major series, humorous and much lighter in tone, relates the misadventures of gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. The series is rich in sophisticated dialogue, wit and cynicism. Besides Scudder and Rhodenbarr, Block has written eight novels about Evan Tanner, an adventurer and accidental revolutionary who, as a result of an injury sustained in the Korean War, cannot sleep.
In our interview he talks about working (as editor) with authors Michael Connelly, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Owen Butler, Stephen King, Lee Child, Megan Abbott, Joe R. Lansdale in the anthology based on the paintings of artist Edward Hopper called "In Sunlight or Shadow."
His website: lawrenceblock.com
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Twitter: @LawrenceBlock
His author page with biography, bibliography, awards, signed and collectible books: bit.ly/1PUF2zp
Kevin J. Anderson: Writer, Publisher, Enreprenuer, Collaborator and more!
If you are a fan of The Dune Series, Starwars, Star Trek, X-files and other science fiction mainstays, you'll want to hear from this marvelous talent and polymath Kevin J. Anderson!
Find him:
Twitter: @TheKJA
Website: www.wordfire.com/
His author page, bibliography and biography: bit.ly/1PfCSon
Purchase signed editions of his books: www.vjbooks.com
Listen in as we talk with audio book and voice talent Barry Campbell
This is a great interview for those that like listening to audio books, and books on tape. Barry is also a book collector and those interested in book collecting will love his stories about adventure and thriller writer Paul Kemprecos.
Find Storyteller Barry Campbell at his website: www.barrycampbell.com/
The Clive Cussler Collector Society website: www.cusslersociety.com/
Hear Barry's voice at: www.audible.com/ (search Barry Campbell)
His IMDG page: www.imdb.com/name/nm3087908/
Turn your book into an audio book: www.acx.com/
Find Paul Kemprecos: www.paulkemprecos.com/
His author page: www.vjbooks.com/Paul-Kemprecos-s/150.htm
Find Harry Potter voice talent Jim Dale: jim-dale.com
Find Graham Brown: grahambrownthrillers.com/books
Graham Brown author's page: www.vjbooks.com/Graham-Brown-s/1081.htm
We talk with author James Renner
The Great Forgetting(2015 Sarah Crichton Books)
In The Man from Primrose Lane, James Renner fused time travel with serial-killer thrillers, resulting in what the Associated Press called "a superbly crazy and imaginative story." Now, in The Great Forgetting, he blends science fiction and conspiracy thrillers with a touch of pure fantasy, and the result is just as crazy and imaginative.
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Interview with Jon Land
Similar Authors: Joseph Finder, Michael Connely, Lee Child.
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About "Strong Cold Dead" by Jon Land:
Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in Jon Land's Strong Cold Dead, a thriller with heart-stopping action and a high-stakes terrorist plot
The terrorist organization ISIS is after a deadly toxin that could be the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. The same toxin holds the potential to eradicate cancer. There is a frantic race to see who can get to it first, even as Caitlin Strong begins to assemble the disparate pieces of a deadly puzzle.
In her highest-stakes adventure yet, Caitlin Strong faces off against a host of adversaries that just might include the beautiful Comanche girl with whom the son of her ex-outlaw boyfriend Cort Wesley Masters has fallen in love, along with a mythic monster culled from Native American folklore that the tribe believes has risen to protect its land. The lives of those Caitlin loves most are threatened by the villains she’s pursuing; her own moral code is challenged. The fate of both the country and the state she loves are dangling on the precipice of a strong cold death.
An Interview with the Ulimate Fan -Russell Ilg
Interview With Jack Du Brul
An Interview With Alan Jacobson
We'll be talking with Alan about his writing, collecting books, and much more.