Mark Greaney has made an impressive career out of looking for the “dark side” of things. His eyes and ears are finely attuned to what’s trending on a geopolitical scale, and it’s here — with almost prescient perception — that Greaney finds the key to unlocking the plot of his…
Dawn IusFebruary 20, 2024
The film adaptation of Mark Greaney’s first thriller, The Gray Man, premiered on Netflix earlier this year and quickly became the platform’s most-watched movie of 2022. Currently the fourth most-watched original film in Netflix history, the movie was an instant fan favorite, leading to film and TV execs jumping to…
BookTribFebruary 20, 2023
Lone Wolf opens more personally than any other book in Gregg Hurwitz’s New York Times bestselling Orphan X series — assassin Evan Smoak is in rough shape, an emotional mess at the conclusion of The Last Orphan, where Hurwitz leaves Evan knocking on the door of the man who may…
Dawn IusApril 5, 2024
My Favorite Scar (Soho Crime) is the English language translation of a book titled Ámbar by rising star author and coordinator for the Center of Crime Fiction at the Buenos Aires National Library of Argentina Nicolás Ferraro. This novel was his second work of fiction translated by Mallory Craig-Kuhn. It…
Linda HitchcockFebruary 13, 2024
Accomplished musician, poet and author Thomas Lane takes readers on an exciting and enlightening journey through time and space in The Karma Factor (Waterside Productions). After a series of unexplainable events, NYPD Detective James Early must harness a newly discovered inner power to find a ruthless serial killer bent on…
Michael FerryApril 21, 2023
BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…
Writers, InkFebruary 13, 2023
“I think we’ve found the new Vince Flynn. His name is Don Bentley.” I wrote that about two years ago for BookTrib after reading Bentley’s debut novel, Without Sanction. I’m now on my fourth Bentley book. Allow me to renew my assessment that Bentley belongs in the top tiers of today’s…
Dennis HetzelMay 3, 2022
Avner Ehrlich is one of the premier agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency and no stranger to putting himself at risk to protect his country. When confronted by a highly sophisticated, virtually undetectable enemy, Ehrlich must sacrifice more than he imagined in order to stop this new foe. In a…
Michael FerryJanuary 6, 2022
When Cry Wolf (Hannover Square Press) opens, we meet Hannah Wester, a policewoman in remote Haparanda, Sweden, just as she’s being plunged into utter chaos. The discovery of a dead wolf, whose last meal was a human, sets off a chain of events involving a drug deal turned blood…
Lydia LefevreDecember 28, 2021
In Target Acquired (G.P. Putnam's Sons), Don Bentley delivers in an action-packed debut as the author of books featuring Jack Ryan Jr., the son of none other than Jack Ryan, the CIA operative who reluctantly became president of the United States. It all started with The Hunt for Red October,…
Dennis HetzelJune 29, 2021
A disconnected, bloodied and world-weary Matt Drake has returned to try to save the world, his marriage and himself along the way. His reappearance is more than welcome. Readers first met Drake in author Don Bentley’s powerful debut Without Sanction. Don't pass up Drake’s sophomore outing, The Outside Man (Berkley),…
Dennis HetzelMarch 5, 2021
BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in…
Writers, InkSeptember 6, 2022
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BookTribJune 9, 2022
Avner Ehrlich is one of the premier agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, and facing a horrific enemy, he must sacrifice so much more than he bargained for. And figure how not to set off a bomb and blow himself to smithereens. This is just some of The Danger Within…
Judy MorenoJanuary 17, 2022
In Bryan Christy’s In the Company of Killers (Putnam), Tom Klay has a unique and specific job — he is an investigative wildlife reporter for a world-renowned nature magazine: “Nature had become his murder book. From A to Z — from the spiral-horned addax to Grevy’s zebra — he exposed…
Neil NyrenMarch 26, 2021