Cold by John Sweeney is the 1st Joe Tiplady thriller (Available July 1, 2016). Cold is a made-up story inspired by things I’ve seen with my own eyes and whispers I’ve picked up in Russia today. It’s dedicated to three people I had the honor of meeting but who are now dead: Anna Politkovskaya, shot…
It's President's Day! Celebrate the history of our Commander in Chief with these excerpts and reviews of 8 great presidential mysteries. The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy by Jacopo Della Quercia is a historical-fiction, steampunk, sci-fi, comedy-noir mashup that features a globetrotting President Taft and Robert Todd Lincoln.…
Pennycook’s Poppycock – A new scientific study has been released in Judgment and Decision Making that is garnering headlines (most of them overblown, sensationalist, and reactionary) that attempts to measure peoples’ susceptibility to “pseudo-profound bullshit.” Gordon Pennycook and colleagues used a sentence generator that takes words and phrases lifted straight from Deepak Chopra’s Twitter feed…
Into the Fire is a brand new addition to Tom Clancy's Op-Center series about a group of group of U.S. forces stranded on a small island near North Korea. The series was created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, and is now being written by Dick Couch and George Galdorisi (available May 5, 2015). When…
The Patriot Threat by Steve Berry is the 11th Cotton Malone political thriller where a North Korean operative obtains files that could ruin the United States (available March 31, 2015). The 16th Amendment to the Constitution is why Americans pay income taxes. But what if there were problems associated with that amendment? Secrets that call…
Sometimes a movie sparks controvery, but rarely is that controversy taken to such as international scale. The Interview, which hits theaters October 10, 2014, focuses on two bumbling men—one, a journalist trying to redeem his career, the other, his producer—who land The Interview of The Year: A chance to sit down with Kim Jong Un.…
An excerpt of A Drop of Chinese Blood by James Church introduces Inspector O’s nephew, Major Bing, the long-suffering chief of the Chinese Ministry of State Security operations on the border with North Korea. The last place Bing expected to find the stunningly beautiful Madame Fang—a woman Headquarters wants closely watched—was on his front doorstep.…
So, just surfing around, looking for something delightful to kick off the day. Let’s see, John Lennon’s killer is up for parole . . . That’s a stone cold bummer to recall, and as for parole, one Facebook pal nailed it: Um, no. Perhaps a nice family photo would be cheering. Criminy! And this is…
