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British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction. Household's flight-and-chase novels, which show the influence of John Buchan, were often narrated in the first person by a gentleman-adventurer. Among his best-know works is' Rogue Male' (1939), a suggestive story of a hunter who becomes the hunted, in 1941 filmed by Fritz Lang as 'Man Hunt'. Household's fast-paced story foreshadowed such international bestsellers as Richard Condon's thriller 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1959), Frederick Forsyth's 'The Day of the Jackal' (1971), and Ken Follett's 'Eye of the Needle' (1978) .

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Paul Vidich

PAUL VIDICH is the acclaimed author of The Coldest Warrior (2020), An Honorable Man (2016) and The Good Assassin (2017), and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, LitHub, CrimeReads, Fugue, The Nation, Narrative Magazine, and others. He lives in New York.

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John Burdett

John Burdett is a novelist and former lawyer. He was born in England and worked in Hong Kong; he now lives in Thailand and France.

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Oliver Harris

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Dale Tafoya

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Dominic Nolan

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Dan Fesperman

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Glenn Dyer

Long captivated by the events of World War II, Glenn Dyer couples this fascination with his passion for historical thrillers with the publication of “The Torch Betrayal”, the first in the Conor Thorn Series. "The Ultra Betrayal" and "The Unquiet Genius" are books 2 & 3 in the series. He resides in Park City, Utah with his wife Chris. They have three children, all of whom live too far away.

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Adam Brookes

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Brian Freemantle

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Jane Thynne

Jane Thynne was born in Venezuela and educated in London. She graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English and joined the BBC as a journalist. She has also worked at The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent, as well as for numerous British magazines. She appears as a broadcaster on Radio 4 and Sky TV. She has also written WIDOWLAND under the pen name C.J. Carey.

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James Wolff

James Wolff worked for the British government for over ten years. He lives in London. His first novel, Beside the Syrian Sea, was published in 2018, and his second, How to Betray Your Country, was published in 2021.

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His influences include Henry James and Ernest Hemingway. His novel An Unfinished Season was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005. His novel Echo House was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1997. He has twice been a finalist for the O. Henry Award: in 1985 for his short story "About Boston," and again in 1986 for his short story

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Gerald A. Browne

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Browne was raised in Litchfield County, Connecticut. He attended the University of New Mexico, The Sorbonne and Columbia University, where he won several literary awards. His first novel, It's All Zoo, was written while he was living in Paris and working as a fashion photographer. His bestselling novels include 11 Harrowhouse, Green Ice, 19 Purchase Street, Stone 588, and Hot Siberian, several of which have been made into films. He lives in New York with his wife, Merle, a model and actress, as well as the co-author of a novel entitled The Ravishers.

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Robert N. Bellah

Robert N. Bellah was Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.

Bellah graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with a B.A. in social anthropology in 1950. His undergraduate honors thesis on “Apache Kinship Systems” won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize and was published by the Harvard University Press. In 1955, he received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in Sociology and Far Eastern Languages and published his doctoral dissertation, Tokugawa Religion, in 1957. After two years of postdoctoral work in Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, he began teaching at Harvard in 1957 and left 10 years later as Professor of Sociology to move to the University of California, Berkeley. From 1967 to 1997,

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Jean-Bernard Pouy

Jean-Bernard Pouy, né le 2 janvier 1946 à Paris, est un écrivain libertaire français de roman noir et un directeur de collections littéraires.

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John DeDakis

Journalist, novelist, and writing coach John DeDakis is a former Senior Copy Editor on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." DeDakis (pronounced deh-DAY-kiss) is the author of five novels in the Lark Chadwick mystery-suspense-thriller series.

His fourth novel, Bullet in the Chamber, is the winner of Reviewers Choice, Foreword INDIES, and Feathered Quill book awards.

His most recent novel, Fake, is a winner of the 2020 Reviewers Choice Award. In Fake, Lark is a White House correspondent dealing with “fake news” in the era of #MeToo.

During his award-winning 45-year career in journalism (25 years at CNN), DeDakis has been a White House Correspondent and interviewed such luminaries as Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan.

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J.M. Adams

JM Adams is the author of SECOND TERM, the first Cora Walker Novel, a speculative thriller set for release on October 17, 2023. (Oceanview Publishing)

He is an Emmy nominated journalist with more than 15 years of on-air television journalism experience, reporting for major news affiliates across the United States and abroad. Besides being nominated for an Emmy for his news reporting, highlights from his career include going on sea patrols with the Navy after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and reporting on location from Kuwait and Iraq while the Air Force enforced No-Fly Zones over Iraq.

He also reported on location from a number of hurricane and wildfire disaster zones and covered multiple high-profile federal and state criminal court cases aro

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David Piper

Sir David Towry Piper CBE FSA FRSL (21 July 1918 – 29 December 1990) was a British museum curator and author. He was director of the National Portrait Gallery & Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford.

Under the pseudonym Peter Towry, Piper wrote a number of novels, including Trial by Battle (1959), a story based on his experiences as an officer in the Indian army, training in Bangalore and then seeing action against the Imperial Japanese Army in Malaya during World War II. He was subsequently a prisoner of war in Japan for three years.

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Merle Nygate

I’m the author of The Righteous Spy, winner of the 2017 Little Brown/UEA Crime Fiction Award. It's my first espionage novel. Previously I've worked as a screenwriter and script editor working on BAFTA winning TV, New York Festival audio drama, written original sitcoms and script edited across multiple genres..

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Christopher G. Moore

Christopher G. Moore is a Canadian author who has lived in Thailand since 1988. Formerly a law professor at the University of British Columbia and a practicing lawyer, Moore has become a public figure in Southeast Asia, known for his novels and essays that have captured the spirit and social transformation of Southeast Asia over the past three decades.

Moore has written over 30 fiction and non-fiction books, including the Vincent Calvino novels which have won including the Shamus Award and German Critics Award and have been translated to over a dozen languages. Moore’s books and essays are a study of human nature, culture, power, justice, technological change and its implications on society and human rights.

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Timothy Hallinan

I'm a thriller and mystery novelist with 22 published books in three series, all with major imprints. I divides my time between Los Angeles and Southeast Asia, primarily Thailand, where I've lived off and on for more than twenty years. As of now, My primary home is in Santa Monica, California.

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The first series I ever wrote featured an overeducated private eye named Simeon Grist. in 2017 I wrote PULPED, the first book in the series to be self-published, which was actually a lo

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Tony Schumacher

Tony Schumacher has written for The Guardian Newspaper, the Huffington Post, and many magazines.

He currently is working on the third book in the John Rossett series of thrillers, which are published worldwide by HarperCollins.

"Schumacher's assured and atmospheric writing make this a memorable novel, reminiscent of writers from John Buchan to Ken Follett, and of directors from Alfred Hitchcock to Carol Reed..." Wall Street Journal Sept 14

"...a thrilling novel that poses some very challenging questions to the reader, and tells a fascinating story..." Mark Rubinstein Huffington Post

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Alan Drew

Alan Drew is the author of the critically acclaimed Detective Benjamin Wade series of psychological thrillers, THE RECRUIT (2022) and SHADOW MAN (2017). His debut novel, GARDENS OF WATER (2008), has been translated into ten languages and published in nearly two-dozen countries. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was awarded a Teaching/Writing Fellowship. An Associate Professor of English at Villanova University where he directs the creative writing program, he lives near Philadelphia with his wife and two children. Learn more about his books at www.alan-drew.com.

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Dov Alfon

Dov Alfon é jornalista e escritor israelense. Ele foi o editor-chefe da Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, a maior editora de Israel. De 2008 a 2011, foi editor-chefe do Haaretz, um dos jornais mais respeitados do mundo.

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Tabitha Lord

WRITER'S DIGEST GRAND PRIZE WINNER 2016

Tabitha's HORIZON series has won seven independent book awards. In addition to writing novels and short fiction, Tabitha is managing editor for the Inkitt Writer's Blog and a partner and senior writer for Book Club Babble. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband, four kids, and various fur babies.

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Eric Beetner

BIO:
Eric Beetner has been hailed as “the new maestro of noir,” by Ken Bruen and “The 21st Century’s answer to Jim Thompson” by LitReactor.
He has written more than 2 dozen novels and his short stories has been featured in over 30 anthologies and along the way he’s been nominated for an ITW award, a Shamus, Derringer and three Anthony awards. He’s won none of them.
Novels include There and Back, All The Way Down, Two In The Head, Rumrunners, The Devil Doesn't Want Me and many more.
For more visit ericbeetner.com

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Michael Siemsen

USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of Exigency (2014), the Matt Turner series (The Dig, 2011; The Opal, 2012; Return, 2015), and the Demon’s Story series (A Warm Place to Call Home, and The Many Lives of Samuel Beauchamp, 2013), Michael Siemsen has sold more than 175,000 books.

Michael grew up in Venice, California, the second son of a Vietnam veteran who was the first son of a Korean War veteran who was the first son of a World War I veteran. Like Lieutenant Dan, Michael carried on the family tradition and joined the Army, though the only wars he fought in involved blank ammunition, laser tag gear, and were kinda fun.

After a decade working various soul-sucking IT jobs, he independently released THE DIG in early 2011, and, 14 months la

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Adam Sikes

Adam Sikes is a novelist and non-fiction author, and his debut thriller, LANDSLIDE, was a finalist for the National Indi Excellence Awards. His latest novel, THE UNDERHANDED, releaseed in April 2024. He also co-authored OPEN SKIES: MY LIFE AS AFGHANISTAN'S FIRST FEMALE PILOT. Prior to taking up the pen, Adam served for over twenty-five years in US national security and is a former paramilitary officer with the CIA and a US Marine Corps combat veteran. He has lived and operated in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, Europe, and Russia. Wherever he went, his books and notepads came with him, and his experiences now inform his writing. Adam holds an M.A. in History from Georgetown University and resides in Southern California. Be sure to fo

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Edin Kapić

Edin was born in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, when it was still part of Yugoslavia. He's an avid reader and an aviation enthusiast.

He lives with his wife and son in the sunny Barcelona, Spain.

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Robert B. Zoellick

Robert B. Zoellick's public experience spans six US presidencies over more than thirty years. He served as Deputy Secretary at the US State Department, as Ambassador and US Trade Representative, in the Treasury Department and the White House, and as President of the World Bank.

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I.S. Berry

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