Kyle Mills
I grew up in Oregon but have lived all over—D.C., Virginia, Maryland, London,
Wyoming. My father was an FBI agent and I was a bureau kid, which is similar to being an army brat. You tend to spend your time with other bureau kids and get transferred around a lot, though, I fared better on that front than many others.
One positive aspect of this lifestyle is that you can’t help but absorb an enormous amount about the FBI, CIA, Special Forces, etc. Like most young boys, I was endlessly fascinated with talk of chasing criminals and, of course, pictured it in the most romantic terms possible. Who would have thought that all this esoteric knowledge would end up being so useful?
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Richard North Patterson
Richard North Patterson is the author of fourteen previous bestselling and critically acclaimed novels. Formerly a trial lawyer, Patterson served as the SEC’s liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor and has served on the boards of several Washington advocacy groups dealing with gun violence, political reform, and women’s rights. He lives in San Francisco and on Martha’s Vineyard.
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Macmillan.com Author Profile
Awards
Edgar Award, 1980, Best First Novel for The Lasko Tangent
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, International Award, 1995 for Degree of Guilt
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Lew Wallace
Lewis "Lew" Wallace was a lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, American statesman, and author, best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
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From Civil War Biography:
Although he would have much preferred to be remembered as a highly successful military hero, Lew Wallace has been thwarted in this ambition and is best known as an author. Born in Indiana, he had worked as a clerk and early displayed a fascination for Mexico which would affect him in later years. During the Mexican War he served as a second lieutenant in the lst Indiana but saw only minor action. In 1849 he was admitted to the bar in his native state and seven years later entered the state senate.
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David Hagberg
aka David Bannerman, Sean Flannery, David James, Robert Pell, Eric Ramsey
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David Hagberg is a former Air Force cryptographer who has traveled extensively in Europe, the Arctic, and the Caribbean and has spoken at CIA functions. He has published more than twenty novels of suspense, including the bestselling High Flight, Assassin, and Joshua's Hammer.
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Noah Boyd
Noah Boyd was the pseudonym Paul Lindsay, of a former FBI agent who spent more than twenty years working on some of the Bureau's toughest investigations, including the Green River Killer case and the Highland Park Strangler case (which he's credited with solving).
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The first book in his Steve Vail series, The Bricklayer, was published in 2010. The second, Agent X, was published in February 2011. Boyd's intimate knowledge of the Bureau's inner workings, including its weaknesses, and his "in the trenches" experience lent unusual authenticity to Vail's character and the novel’s investigative details.
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Lewis Sorley
Lewis Stone "Bob" Sorley III was an American intelligence analyst and military historian. His books about the U.S. war in Vietnam, in which he served as an officer, have been highly influential in government circles.
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Lori Foster
Since first publishing in January 1996, Lori Foster has become a USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and New York Times bestselling author. Lori has published through a variety of houses, including Kensington, St. Martin’s, Harlequin, Silhouette, Samhain, and Berkley/Jove. She is currently published with HQN.
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Lori hosts a very special annual “Reader & Author” event in West Chester, Ohio. Proceeds from the event have benefited many worthy causes, including the Hamilton County YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter, the Animal Adoption Foundation, The Conductive Learning Center for children with spina bifida and cerebral palsy, and The One Way Farm, Children’s Home.
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Andrew Welsh-Huggins
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS is the Shamus Award-nominated author of the Andy Hayes private eye series, the standalone crime novel "The End of the Road," and editor of "Columbus Noir." His short fiction has appeared in "Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine," "Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine," Mystery Magazine," the anthologies "The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021," "Mickey Finn 21st Century Noir: Vols I and III," "Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon," and other magazines and anthologies. Andrew's nonfiction book, "No Winners Here Tonight," is the definitive history of the death penalty in Ohio.
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Matthew Becker
Matthew Becker is a former mathematician who worked as part of the national Covid-19 response. He has a doctorate in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.
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Matthew currently lives with his wife, a U.S. diplomat, and their two children in Nicaragua. An avid thriller reader, he loves stories with dense, twisted plots and emotional gravitas.
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Daniel Warren
Daniel Warren lives in Washington state, and practiced journalism until he realized there was no way to earn a living at it. Not that self publishing ebooks is any better! For comments or critiques, contact dwarrenbooks @ gmail dot com
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Stu Friedman
Stu Friedmanis a highly decorated Detective Sergeant that served 23 years with the NYC Transit Police and NYPD. He worked in plainclothes, undercover, was a detective and detective supervisor in numerous units.
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He has been shot, stabbed, has had bones broken. He still has a bullet lodged in his chest to this day. He was the youngest member of the department to ever be awarded the presitigious Police Combat Cross. He was the recipient of two Medal For Valor awards, the department third highest award. He was the 1986 Jewish Cop of the Year, has received the Military Order of the Purple Heart Law Enforcement Citation, and the PBA "Cop of the Month" award on three separate occasions. The DEA has recognized him for his support and leadership of -
Ryan Pote
Ryan Pote is a twelve-year veteran Navy helicopter pilot who was part of a joint interagency special operations task force, deployed throughout Central and South America conducting counter narcotics. Before the Navy, he was a scuba diving instructor in Hawaii and a lab tech conducting algae-biofuels research. He holds a Masters degree in History from Ashland University. He lives with his wife and children in New England. Follow on IG, Facebook, X, and Goodreads @ryanpotebooks
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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)
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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.
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Don Fox
Don Fox has been creating exciting worlds for parents and kids for 30 years, first with theme park rides at Midland Entertainment and then in family feature development and programming. His special attraction films have been featured at the MGM Grand and the Luxor in Las Vegas, Busch Gardens and Sea World Parks in Florida, Paramount Parks, Six Flags, and other parks worldwide – so no matter where you live, you might very well have already seen Don’s work!
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Don’s favorite award he has won is the Themed Entertainment Association (Thea) Award, honoring entertainment projects that demonstrate the power of compelling environments and experiences for guests and visitors.
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Andrew Bourelle
Andrew Bourelle is the author of the novels SHOT CLOCK, 48 HOURS TO KILL, and HEAVY METAL. He is coauthor with James Patterson of TEXAS RANGER, TEXAS OUTLAW, and THE TEXAS MURDERS. His short stories have been published widely in literary magazines and fiction anthologies.
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Theodore V. Olsen
Theodore Victor Olsen (April 25, 1932 in Rhinelander, Wisconsin – July 13, 1993 in Rhinelander) was an American western fiction author.
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Olsen's family immigrated from Norway in 1901. Theodore Olsen was born on April 25, 1932 in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He went to school in Rhinelander and began to write in high school. He began a western novel at that time. Olsen went to college in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He finally finished his novel, Haven of the Hunted, and it was published in 1956. Olsen also began to sell western stories to pulp magazines at this time. Though Olsen would occasionally travel west, he lived his whole life in Rhinelander and would use exhaustive research to help accurately portray scenes of the west in his stories.
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J. Todd Scott
A retired federal law enforcement agent with thirty years of experience, J. Todd Scott was a finalist for the 2024 International Thriller Writers Award for Best Paperback Original and is the critically acclaimed author of six crime, suspense, and thriller novels. He is also a film and TV producer and screenwriter, most recently for the Paramount+ series Lawmen: Bass Reeves.
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Kevin A. Reynolds
Born just south of London, England, Kevin A. Reynolds has lived in Tokyo for over 30 years, where he writes novels focused on Japan past, present and future.
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Both his first novel, ‘Mamoribito - The One Who Protects,’ and his second novel, ‘The Girl Who Fell Through Time,’ started as screenplays, but it is as 小説* that the full tales can be best told.
Although he covers different genres, there is a core theme that lies at the heart of his work, along the lines of “There are more things in heaven and earth….”
He also plays guitar, though not particularly well.
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Gar Wilson
Phoenix Force is a series of action-adventure novels first published in 1982 by American Gold Eagle publishers. It is a spin-off of the Executioner series created by Don Pendleton.
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Phoenix Force is one of two neutralization teams working for Stony Man, a top-secret anti-terrorist organization. As with The Executioner, the Phoenix Force novels have been written by a succession of authors under the pseudonym Gar Wilson. In 1991, Gold Eagle combined Phoenix Force with another Executioner spin-off series, Able Team, and launched the Stony Man book series, which is still being published as of 2005. -
Roya Hakakian
Roya Hakakian (Persian: رویا حکاکیان) (born 1966 in Iran) is an Iranian-American poet, journalist and writer living in the United States. A lauded Persian poet turned television producer with programs like 60 Minutes, Roya became well known for her memoir, Journey from the Land of No in 2004 and essays on Iranian issues in the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and on NPR. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, Roya published Assassins of the Turquoise Palace in 2011, a non-fiction account of the Mykonos restaurant assassinations of Iranian opposition leaders in Berlin.
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Roya was a founding member of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, and serves on the board of Refugees International. Harry Kreisler's Poli -
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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Michael Balter
Michael Balter is an award-winning author and natural storyteller whose debut novel, Chasing Money, won multiple accolades, including the 2023 Best Indie Book Award for Crime Thrillers, the 2024 Feathered Quill Award for Best Mystery/Thriller/Suspense novel, and the 2024 Crime Thriller of the Year from BestThrillers.com.
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Born in post-war Berlin, Michael grew up in a bombed-out building with bars on the windows and bullet holes in the walls. When the Berlin wall went up, his family fled to Ottawa and then moved to Detroit at the height of the 1967 riots. During the Vietnam War, Michael served as an air traffic controller at the Udorn Air Force base in Thailand.
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Ellie Campbell
Ellie Campbell is the author name for two sisters, Lorraine Campbell and Pam Burks, who write together collaborating by phone and email from Surrey, UK and Colorado, USA. They have published six novels, How To Survive Your Sisters, When Good Friends Go Bad, Looking For La La, To Catch a Creeper, Million Dollar Question and Meddling With Murder. They also have published a collection of short stories - Love, Lies and Other Deceptions
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Addison J. Chapple
Addison J. Chapple enjoys writing books that make people laugh and that leave them with a message of hope and a greater understanding of the world around them. Following an award-winning career as an actor on Broadway, Addison began working behind the scenes in the entertainment industry, managing writers and helping to develop literary properties for film and television, before turning to creative endeavors. Addison has since become a prolific author with a keen sense of story that resonates in both the publishing and film worlds.
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Robert Reisler
Robert Reisler is an American author and part-time philosopher. Attending Purdue University and Kansas State University, he holds a Pre-Medicine degree with a minor emphasis on the Arts. Faith, miracles, and the metaphysical intrigue Reisler and he continues to study different religions and the nature of belief. A lover of a good thriller or mystery and a traveler, at heart, Reisler has raised five children while living in India, SE Asia, Africa, and Europe, as well as several locations around the United States. A Kansas native, he now resides with his family in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Sam Ferguson
Sam is a very lucky guy. He juggles work in such a way that he makes sure to spend enough time with his loving wife and five sons. He is blessed to be writing full time now. In his spare time he is an avid powerlifter, and competes from time to time.
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He spent nearly five years serving as a U.S. Diplomat and absolutely loved the experience, but decided to move back home. Outside of the U.S. he has lived in Latvia, Hungary, and Armenia. He speaks Russian, Hungarian, and Armenian. (He used to speak some Latvian too, but he has no one to practice with anymore…)
He has a large, happy dog.
He plays the Elder Scrolls series.
His favorite superhero is Wolverine, but Batman is a close second.
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Andrew Britton
During his early childhood, Andrew Britton lived between England and Camlough, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, until the family emigrated to the United States in 1988 at age seven. Britton spent years in both Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Raleigh, North Carolina. After graduating from Leesville Road High School in Raleigh in 1999, Britton joined the U.S. Army as a combat engineer. He stayed in the Army for three years and served in Korea.
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After his military service, Britton attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied economics and psychology.
He published his first novel at age 23.
Britton died at the age of 27 of an undiagnosed heart condition in Durham, North Carolina.