INTERVIEW WITH REECE HIRSCH

INTERVIEW WITH REECE HIRSCH

The character of Nate Fallon was inspired by the true story of Ross Ulbricht, the young man who founded the Dark Web market place Silk Road. When I read the reporting about Ulbricht, I could never quite understand how this smart, likeable, middle-class kid evolved into a criminal kingpin who allegedly ended up ordering hits to protect his empire.

REVIEW OF THE GRYPHON HEIST

REVIEW OF THE GRYPHON HEIST

“What I want readers to get out of this is to create a moralistic story about espionage. I started to realize there is not a separation from G-d and the questions of morality. Where is the line between right and wrong? In the end, I wanted it as a story of forgiveness, to let go of anger. There is a need to learn to forgive in the face of extreme trauma.”

INTERVIEW WITH DOUG PRESTON & LINCOLN CHILD

INTERVIEW WITH DOUG PRESTON & LINCOLN CHILD

Anyone who studied American history in grade school or high school will have experienced disgust and sorrow. Those in the Donner Party braved a terrible trip in want of a better life in California, where they were headed. Unfortunately, they decided to take a short cut. They were fathers, mothers, and children and not desperadoes. The tragedy and the will to survive was unimaginable.

REVIEW OF The Warehouse by Rob Hart

REVIEW OF The Warehouse by Rob Hart

With WAREHOUSE, Hart seamlessly crosses genres from street level crime to speculative science-fiction. The reader is being fed the necessary exposition throughout the book as the story requires. The science fiction aspects of Cloud and the world outside our window that this story takes place in are fascinating, to be sure. But what really matters are the characters of Paxton and Zinnia. If the reader isn’t invested in their parallel journeys, then the journey doesn’t matter.