My ebooks are now available through OverDrive’s library system! If you’re already familiar with OverDrive, I’ll send you straight to the online lookup for specific libraries you might like: www.overdrive.com/libraries If you’re not familiar with OverDrive, it’s a program used by over 30,000 libraries in more than 40 countries, through which anyone with a library […]
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When Can You Afford To Fail?
Call them what you will. Risk takers. Speculators. Explorers. All three can have similar implications in certain scenarios. All three are also descriptions of oil wildcatters. In this day and age, a wildcatter is generally someone who is drilling for oil in a spot where there’s no record of oil existing. It used to be […]
Night School & Deep Cover Jack: The Craft Behind the Books
Lee Child and I both have new releases right now: Lee is about to release Night School, and I just released Deep Cover Jack, the fourth novel in my Hunt for Jack Reacher Series, which is an authorized spin-off series from Lee Child’s Reacher novels. Today, I wanted to take you on a behind-the-scenes tour into […]
New Thriller: Sneak Peek on iBooks!
You know that old saying that good news comes in threes? Well, it certainly applies to my new book releases this fall. I’ve been working hard for the past three years to bring you exciting new reads, and three novels were ready almost all at once! We’ve already released two new novels……. and a […]
Florida Can Do Halloween, Too!
What are the Halloween traditions where you live? In Florida, where many of my books take place, it doesn’t always feel the way you might expect a typical Halloween to feel. The average temperature on Halloween in Tampa is 72 degrees Fahrenheit. The record low was in 1963 at 43 degrees, and the record high was in 1971 […]
3 Times Satellite Cameras Saw More Than We Did
In my Hunt for Jack Reacher thriller Deep Cover Jack, we see how military and government satellites are being used for surveillance. As I wrote in a recent blog post, satellites use infrared technology to define clarity of images on earth. Since smoke, clouds, fog, even darkness are no problem, satellites can reveal an amazing […]
What is The Problem with Wild Mega Hogs?
There’s a big difference between wild pigs and the pigs you see at a petting zoo. Why do we care about wild pigs? Read on….. Texas knows this. And so does Michael Flint, as you’ll read in my thriller Blood Trails. His latest assignment as an Heir Hunter takes him to Texas, where he encounters […]
Lee Child on New Reacher Film, “Never Go Back”
If you’re like me, you have Friday, October 21, 2016 circled on your calendar. Why? It’s the new Jack Reacher movie! Never Go Back is the sequel to the 2012 film, Jack Reacher, set four years later. This time, Jack Reacher is accused of an old murder. A government conspiracy may be behind the accusation. Did […]
Cloudy Day? No Problem For Some Spies…
Anybody who’s seen the movie Eye in the Sky has had a glimpse into how advanced military and government surveillance is. Just check out my blog post here to see how drones that look, act, and sound like insects can gather top secret information. Drones are great for invading small or dangerous spaces. But there’s another approach […]
C-4: Proof That The Hunt for Reacher Is Deadly
Hunting Jack Reacher is deadly business. You know that’s the case in all of my Hunt for Reacher thrillers, right? Deep Cover Jack continues that promise and C-4 is involved. So, what do you know about the chemical explosive C-4? If, like Jack Reacher, you have a military background, you probably know a lot. I needed to […]
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