Books for the Times by Bob Doerr
With all the horrific actions
carried out by ISIS and its sympathizers in the past few months, it's easy to
see why many of us believe the world is becoming a more
dangerous place. The violent, random assaults
on our nation’s police in retribution for a few bad cops, while despicable
itself, has added fuel to the ISIS propaganda that is already being used
worldwide via social networks to target new recruits. With
no end of violence in sight, the conflict between more security and our privacy
is sure to reach a new apex in the next year or so.
Most of us believe that another major terrorist
attack on US soil is inevitable. Only
the timing is in question, and hopefully our intelligence and law enforcement
communities can keep our enemies at bay for as long as possible.
It is in this hostile environment and reflecting
back to 9/11, that I came up with Clint Smith, the main character in my book The Attack. My publisher released The Attack in 2014, and in the first months of 2016, the second
book in the series, The Group, will
be released.
Clint Smith is a “Hunter” employed by a very small
and extremely secret government agency.
Only a handful of people within the government have knowledge to what
Smith and the other eleven hunters do.
When an individual is deemed to be a viable,
imminent threat to the United States, Smith is sent out to find him or
her. With guidance from his superiors,
Smith shadows the work of other US and allied agencies without their knowledge.
Where possible he gets ahead of the other agencies efforts. Once the target is located, that data is
passed on to the appropriate law enforcement or security agencies. If for
whatever reason, another agency can’t respond in time to capture or kill the
target, Smith is given the green light to eliminate the threat, before departing
the area and leaving no trace that he was ever there.
In The Group,
Smith is sent on the trail of a seemingly invisible group of assassins set on
murdering the world’s richest men. The
trail takes Smith to Switzerland, Spain, and back to the U.S. As he pursues this new world “league of
assassins”, he gets the strange sensation that they have begun to look for
him. If you like fast moving thrillers,
please check out The Group when it
becomes available in the next month or two.
Bio:
Award winning author Bob Doerr grew up in
a military family, graduated from the Air Force Academy, and had a career of
his own in the Air Force. Bob
specialized in criminal investigations and counterintelligence gaining
significant insight to the worlds of crime, espionage, and terrorism.
His work
brought him into close coordination with the security agencies of many
countries and filled his mind with the fascinating plots and characters found
in his books today. His education credits include a Masters in International
Relations from Creighton University.
A
full time author with ten published books and a co-author in another, Bob was
selected by the Military Writers Society of America as its Author of the Year
for 2013. The Eric Hoffer Awards awarded No
One Else to Kill its 2013 first runner up to the grand prize for commercial
fiction. Two of his other books were finalists for the Eric Hoffer Award in
earlier contests. Loose Ends Kill won
the 2011 Silver medal for Fiction/mystery by the Military Writers Society of
America. Another Colorado Kill
received the same Silver medal in 2012 and the silver medal for general fiction
at the Branson Stars and Flags national book contest in 2012.
Bob released an
international thriller titled The Attack
in May 2014, and more recently, Caffeine
Can Kill, his sixth book in the Jim West mystery series. Bob has also written three novellas for middle
grade readers in the Enchanted Coin series: The
Enchanted Coin, The Rescue of Vincent,
and The Magic of Vex. Bob lives
in Garden Ridge, Texas, with Leigh, his wife of 42 years, and Cinco, their
ornery cat.
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Comments
Sound like both books are exciting reads.
If you like exciting international thrillers with scientific and historic tidbits to add reality, try I SAW YOU IN BEIRUT. In this novel a woman scientist uses clues from her past to identify and extract a nuclear scientist from Iran. Free copies are available from: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/166390-i-saw-you-in-beirut.
JL Greger