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Jim Parry

Jim Parry

Jim Parry, a Harvard graduate, has had a long career in advertising, including starting two agencies with national accounts (Conoco, Pfizer, Best Western Hotels). His thriller, The Discovery, was published by Crowell, a division of what is now HarperCollins. He has co-written screenplays sold to Columbia and Universal and most recently has blogged for Huffington Post. He is back to writing thrillers and is collaborating with Ron Barrett (co-creator and illustrator of "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs") on illustrated books for adults and children.

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Exacting Revenge in the City of Love

In Mike Bond’s latest thriller Goodbye Paris (Big City Press), that’s how Special Forces veteran Pono Hawkins remembers what happened eight years ago in Mosul, when he and his buddy Mack were grabbed by Mustafa al-Boudienne and Mustafa’s terrorist crew. Pono and Mack escaped. And now Mustafa is thought to…
Jim Parry
June 25, 2019
Thrillers

Marty Weiss: A High-Stakes Financial Thriller

Who are “they”?  “They” are Flamingo Enterprises of Grand Cayman Island.  And in Flamingo Coast (Rare Bird Books), the new thriller by Martin Jay Weiss, they are harboring Max Culpepper, a criminal hedge fund manager who – out on bail in Manhattan, awaiting trial – has escaped.  Escaped and is…
Jim Parry
January 10, 2019
Thrillers

True Washington Insider Pens Twisty Legal Thriller

The Eighteenth Green (Beaufort Books) billed as a Jack Patterson Thriller by Webb Hubbell, is a fast-paced, twisty legal thriller set in Washington. The reader gets that the author really knows Washington, how the U.S. government works, and the lengths the government will go against someone.  The government will imprison…
Jim Parry
November 21, 2018
Thrillers

Alan Brenham Plays With Our Minds in “Game Piece”

A killer is messing with Barry Marshall’s head -- and with everything he holds dear. That sets the stage for Alan Brenham’s chilling, twisting, rocketing thriller, Game Piece (Black Opal Books), in which Marshall is the game piece that the killer is coldly, cruelly maneuvering. Alan Brenham is the pseudonym…
Jim Parry
October 30, 2018
Thrillers

U.S. Intelligence Creds Make “Byte” Too Real

EDITOR'S NOTE: Shortly after this interview was conducted, BookTrib learned that Eric C. Anderson had passed away. Eric's literary contributions, through his fiction writing to his understanding of the complex intelligence and military challenges facing Western democracies, are incalculable. He was an exemplary and remarkable human being who will be…
Jim Parry
October 23, 2018
Nonfiction

A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future

The past 200 years have been marked by two worldwide explosions: population growth and economic growth.  The latter, necessary to cope with the former, also dramatically improved how most the of world’s people live. But in the last decades of the 20th century, population growth began to slow, and eventually…
Jim Parry
September 19, 2018
Thrillers

Anubis: A Thriller Straight from U.S. Intelligence

You expect a thriller written by a retired member of the U.S. Intelligence Community who served in Iraq and Saudi Arabia to give you the inside dope on how terror and other stuff gets done. Anubis delivers. In this second installment of Eric C. Anderson’s New Caliphate trilogy (Dunn Books),…
Jim Parry
August 2, 2018

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