HAUNTED BY HIS PAST In a world ruled by the purest survivors, the fiercest warriors, Gage was the strongest – an American executing his country’s darkest missions with legendary cunning and skill. Until, wounded and dying in a scorched wasteland, he found mercy at the hands of an aging priest. Separated from the secret world he once dominated, he chose a life of exile, pursuing a lonely peace, a solitary faith. Only the murder of his mentor and … [Read more...]
Like Father, Like Son?: A.E. Sawan on the Recent Tragedy In Syria
Are you horrified by what Bashar Al Assad, the president of Syria, is doing to his own people? Bombing civilians, burning cities and neighborhoods to the ground, killing babies by the thousands, turning millions of Syrians into refugees? When I tell you about his father, you may have to forgive him, for ruthlessness and the determination to hold on to power at all costs is his inheritance. It has been ingrained in him since birth. His father, … [Read more...]
Seattle Author Pens A Dark, Brooding Thriller About a Savage Killer on a Quest for Redemption In HARD DOG TO KILL
2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal for Suspense/Thriller HARD DOG TO KILL: Hardened mercenaries Stan Mullens and Frank Giordano are fighting their way across the Congo jungle, having been sent to track down and kill a charismatic diamond miner, Tonde Chiora. But their victim is full of dangerous surprises, and the jungle offers more opportunities to die than to kill. Struggling to survive in the dark heart of the Congo, Stan … [Read more...]
Author Craig Holt Discusses Why He Chose the Congo As the Setting For His New Thriller HARD DOG TO KILL
I’ve often described Hard Dog to Kill as a character study masquerading as a testosterone-soaked adventure. But it’s also an exploration of one of the world’s most intense environments. The book was born from a desire to write about a part of the world I’ve traveled to and worked in for almost three decades. My professional life as an expedition leader and a coffee importer has taken me to more than seventy countries, and I can tell you there … [Read more...]
Craig Holt
Meet Craig Holt - novelist, traveler, coffee geek Greetings from Seattle! I’m an author who spent much of the last three decades traveling and working throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and both Polar regions. Initially I traveled as a dirt poor thrill seeker, then later as an expedition leader for an ecotourism company. These days my work as a coffee buyer for my importing business satisfies my urge to wander. At this point I’ve visited … [Read more...]
New York Times Bestselling Author John J. Nance Takes Readers for Another Wild Ride in 16 SOULS
On takeoff from Denver during a winter blizzard, an airliner piloted by veteran Captain Marty Mitchell overruns a commuter plane from behind. Bizarrely, the fuselage of the smaller aircraft is tenuously wedged onto the huge right wing of his Boeing 757, leading Mitchell to an impossible life-or-death choice. Mitchell’s decision will land the former military pilot in the cross-hairs of a viciously ambitious district attorney determined to send … [Read more...]
A.E. Sawan
A.E. Sawan was born into a Christian family on the outskirts of Zahle in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. By the age of 12, he and his family had been forced to move five different times because of the country’s shattering civil war (1975 to 1990). Detained and tortured on several occasions by both the Syrian Army and the Palestinian Liberation Army (PLO), he eventually became a counter-terrorist operative specializing in diffusing bombs. Having survived … [Read more...]
Colin Campbell: “Once A Cop Always A Cop”
“Once a cop always a cop.” A common phrase that does have some merit, although I know a few retired police officers who avoid being an ex-cop like the plague. For me? More later. “Write what you know.” Another common phrase, but one that I believe has considerably less merit. Did Stan Lee know about climbing buildings and slinging webs after being bitten by a spider? Did George Lucas have experience of a galaxy far, far away? I think the … [Read more...]
Is it Wrong to Manipulate Human DNA Like It’s Computer Code?
What makes us human beings? My 3rd grader could give the correct scientific answer—DNA. It gives all of our cells instructions and makes each of us individuals. Based on my heritage, I have blue eyes, brown hair that started going gray in my twenties, skin that tans easily, and a second toe that is slightly longer than my big toe (My sister and I used to tell our friends it was a sign of royalty. I think they might have even believed … [Read more...]
BORDERLAND Author Peter Eichstaedt On Border Culture in Ads, Song, and Fiction
Few people realize how deeply ingrained Mexico and its border with the U.S. are in American culture. Consider the television advertising that Taco Bell has used for decades that capitalizes on the border, the Spanish language, and all things Mexican. In the 1980s and early 1990s, Taco Bell got mileage out of the slogan: “Make a Run forthe Border.” The slogan played on the well-worn theme of criminals running from the law and crossing the … [Read more...]
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