David Baldacci has served up just what the doctor ordered for sheltering in place during a pandemic with Walk the Wire (Grand Central), featuring the stalwart and cerebral FBI agent Amos Decker. Decker and his photographic memory are put to their greatest test ever when he and his partner Alex…
Jon LandApril 23, 2020
A few weeks ago, I met Adrian McKinty in the back room of a slick Manhattan bar. It was a tri-author book event hosted by Little, Brown, but really it was McKinty I was there to see. I was a fan, and I also felt a personal ‘thank you’ was…
Casey BarrettJuly 9, 2019
So begins The Border (William Morrow), Rhode Island native Don Winslow’s long-awaited, brilliant and bracing concluding chapter to the trilogy that began twenty years ago with The Power of the Dog and continued much more recently with The Cartel. The great thing about that opening line is that it foreshadows…
Jon LandFebruary 27, 2019
Finding a well-written crime novel isn't always easy, especially one that's nuanced, exciting, and so realistic that they even make the criminals nervous. But that's exactly what you'll get with author Don Winslow, who's been writing crime and mystery novels for the past 26 years. His latest book, The Force,…
Rachel CarterJune 27, 2017
If you haven’t watched Netflix’s Narcos yet, you need to rectify that situation immediately. It follows the story of history’s most infamous drug kingpin, Pablo Escobar, whose Colombian cocaine empire made him one of the richest men in the world in the early 1990s. Season 1, which premiered in 2015,…
Katie HiresSeptember 2, 2016
Image credit: Jerry Bauer 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.…
Writers, InkMay 16, 2022
2017 was a remarkable year for fiction and nonfiction. From fearless debut novelists to established literary veterans at the top of their games, authors provided the artistic tonic we needed to survive a turbulent time both politically and culturally. Narrowing down a reading list of 116 titles to just 35…
Daniel FordDecember 22, 2017
