Scott Roarke 03 - Executive Command (44 page)

There are so many people I’d like to thank for their love, encouragement, and willingness to share their knowledge and resources.

Michael Messinger, for his insight into the “inside.” His work with every U.S. president of the modern era has to be a record all on its own. Peter Loge from Milo Public Affairs for his Beltway savvy and key help for the third time. Then there’s Bruce Coons, U.S. Army retired and my oldest friend in the world. Let’s just say Bruce has been around. He knows “things” and makes sure I get them right.

Marc Kusinitz and Gordon Rubenfeld get my thanks for their incredible assistance with health and medical information; key to the plot.

In the realm of publishing, Roger Cooper for launching my career as a novelist, and putting the right words in the right ears. Those ears belong to Scott Waxman at Diversion Books. Thank you, Scott, for taking me into the phenomenal world of eBooks with
Executive Actions
,
Executive Treason
and now
Executive Command
. Also, true and sincere special thanks to Mary Cummings, Diversion Books Editorial Director, who has been wonderful every step of the way.

Additional thanks to Barbara Schwartz and Deborah Collins for their attention to detail, and readers and fans who have taken the time and effort to write me. I hope Executive Command delivers for you!

I also want to thank authors and friends W.G. Griffiths, Dwight Jon Zimmerman, Larry Bond, Michael Palmer, Dale Brown and Allan Topol. Add to that list, screenwriters Bruce Feirstein and Gary Goldman. You’ve all helped inspire me and move me forward.

Of course there are my colleagues, mentors and friends Dick Taylor, Vin Di Bona, Stan Deutsch, Robb Weller, Barry Kibrick, Sandi Goldfarb, Kathy Scheets, Jeffrey Greenhawt, Jeffrey Davis, Nancy Cushing-Jones, Shelley Frieman, Michael Blowen, Mike Brown, Tom Cooper, Jim Nolt, and so many more friends and colleagues I’ll just have to write more books to acknowledge everyone.

Special thanks again to Bob Bowker and Bianca Pino at iNet//Web Solutions, Inc. for their wonderful and creative development of my website, www.garygrossman.com. Friends and colleagues forever.

Thanks to my wonderful family, Helene, Sasha, Zach and Jake. I also have to point skyward to Stanley and Evelyn and Maish and Jean for all your love, too.

G
ARY
G
ROSSMAN’s
first novel,
Executive Actions
, propelled him into the world of political thrillers.
Executive Treason
, the sequel, further tapped Grossman’s experience as a journalist, newspaper columnist, documentary television producer, reporter and playwright. The third book in the series,
Executive Command
, brought his trilogy to a conclusion…or has it? He has written for the
New York Times
,
Boston Globe
, and
Boston Herald American
. He covered presidential campaigns for WBZ-TV in Boston, and has produced television series for NBC News, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and 40 cable networks. He is a multiple Emmy Award winning producer, served as chair of the Government Affairs Committee for the Caucus for Television, Producers, Writers and Directors, and is a member of the International Thriller Writers Association. Grossman has taught at Emerson College (where he is a member of the Board of Trustees), Boston University, USC, and Loyola Marymount University, and is a contributing editor to
Media Ethics Magazine
.

For more information on
Old Earth
and other works by Gary Grossman visit
www.garygrossman.com

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@garygrossman1

“An ambitious tale loaded with heaping doses of adrenalin, OLD EARTH sweeps the reader away with history, intrigue, espionage, engaging characters, and an intelligent conclusion – all elements of the perfect thriller!" —Steve Berry, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author, THE LINCOLN MYTH

"A high energy combination of history and intrigue, and last but not least, a great book to bring along the next time you travel." —Peter Greenberg, CBS News Travel Editor

"OLD EARTH's richly detailed and unique premise will delight fans of Dan Brown and Michael Crichton." —CJ Lyons, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author

Gary Grossman, author of the wildly popular Executive series, returns with a high-octane thriller that digs into the history of the Earth to find the secrets people are willing to kill to keep concealed.

In the summer of 1601, Galileo Galilei made a startling discovery in the mountains of Eastern Italy that, if made public, could shatter faith in religion, bring down governments and lead to worldwide turmoil.

For more than 400 years the secret has been guarded by a small group of incredibly powerful people, willing to do everything in their power to keep these discoveries from being made. But now, a university dig in Montana headed by paleontologists Quinn McCauley and Katrina Alpert threatens to expose the secret Galileo unearthed, the event that caused him to turn his study to the stars, and the hidden reason the scientist was convicted of heresy by the Inquisition.

McCauley and Alpert find themselves in a global game of cat-and-mouse, seeking answers for a mystery that has endured for centuries, hunted for what they might discover.

OLD EARTH weighs age-old arguments between science and religion in a tense thriller that spans time and questions recorded history.

Executive Actions

An assassin’s bullet changes the course of the Presidential election—not by killing Democratic candidate Teddy Lodge, but his wife. Riding a wave of popular sympathy, Lodge surges forward as the man to beat for incumbent President Morgan Taylor. Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke is ordered by President Taylor to investigate the assassination, and unravels a deadly Soviet plot that has incubated for more than 30 years. Now in the hands of a power hungry Middle Eastern heir to the throne, Agent Roarke must stop a sleeper agent poised to change the course of American policy in the Middle East.
Executive Actions
is a tense political thriller, where both the Presidency and the Constitution are at stake.

Executive Treason

The secret terrorist organization that came within a heartbeat of installing its agent as President of the United States in
Executive Actions
is back with a new—and deadlier—plot to destabilize the U.S. government. It all begins with what appears to be a simple mugging and murder of a female White House staffer. Secret Service agent Scott Roarke discovers the truth: that the murder was committed by his secret nemesis, the mysterious assassin who had managed to always stay one step ahead of him during the presidential campaign. This time Roarke has found clues about the assassin's past that give him the tools he needs to hunt the hunter, but the clues can only go so far. Roarke needs all his skill, and a huge amount of luck as well, if he's going to catch his quarry.

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