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Can Mike Bond Save the Beautiful Maine Environment?

Mike Bond In most thrillers, when a Special Forces vet battles the forces of evil, he fights for his life, his allies and his country, all in a fictional environment. But when Pono Hawkins, the main character of Mike Bond’s new thriller Killing Maine (Mandevilla Press, 2015), takes on the…
Michael Ruscoe
August 3, 2015
MiscellanyThrillers

The Crucial Role of Queer Authors in Mystery & Thriller Genres

In the ever-evolving landscape of mysteries and thrillers, queer authors are bringing vital perspectives, narratological experimentation, and nuanced takes on criminality and justice. LGBTQ writers are crafting stories shaped by their lived experiences of chosen family, otherness, and code-switching. Queering crime fiction interrogates tropes and tests genre boundaries. Serving up…
Margot Douaihy
July 17, 2024
Book Club NetworkThrillers

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
Fiction

A Globetrotting, Tomb-Raiding Tour de Force

Carys Jones may bear the same last name as Harrison Ford’s action hero Indiana, but she has more in common with Robert Langdon from Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code series. For starters, she’s a novice when it comes to adventuring, described by an old boyfriend as “a highly educated, glorified…
Jeff Daugherty
April 12, 2019