They say a woman’s work is never done. And, it seems, neither is the work of a freelance government agent specializing in international anti-terrorism. Which is a good thing for fans of Jonathan Maberry’s iconic character Joe Ledger, who’s back for another adventure in Burn To Shine (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the fourteenth Joe Ledger novel, and fourth since Joe joined the RTI.
In the following email interview, Maberry talks about what inspired and influenced Joe’s newest outing, as well as how it may be coming to TV thanks to a friend of John Wick.
We’ve all been there: your boss gives you something to do, but then adds, “Oh, and one more thing…” and then hits you with something else, something that makes the first task that much more complicated.
It’s a scenario at the heart of Karna Small Bodman’s new spy novel Protecting Jess (hardcover, Kindle), in which a CIA agent finds his already dangerous assignment becoming even more complicated when his boss says, well, you know.
In the following email interview, Bodman talks about what inspired and influenced this spy story.
Over the last fifteen years, author Seb Doubinsky has written ten stand-alone novels in his dystopian noir and more series, the City-States Cycle, including the newest, the sci-fi and espionage-infused The Sum Of All Things (paperback, Kindle).
But while he went into writing The Sum thinking it would also be the end of the story, it seems this series has different ideas.
In the following email interview, Doubinsky talks about why The Sum was going to be the end of the City-States Cycle, why it’s not, and how thinking it would be influenced how he wrote it.
Having previously collaborated on a comic book as well as a novel in which characters from their individual novels work together, writers Rob Hart [Assassins Anonymous, The Warehouse] and Alex Segura [Secret Identity, Alter Ego] have teamed up again, this time on a sci-fi space opera spy novel called Dark Space (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Hart and Segura talk about what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story, as well as why they decided to write it together.
With The Armageddon Protocol (paperback, Kindle), author Dan Moren is presenting the final book in The Galactic Cold War series.
Though as he explains in the following email interview about this sci-fi space opera spy novel, “final” might not be the right word…
David Ignatius is best known for his column in The Washington Post, and for appearing on news discussions shows.
But when he’s not writing about or discussing current events, he lets his mind (and fingers) wander as he writes such espionage thrillers as Body Of Lies, Agents Of Innocence, and The Increment.
In the following email interview, Ignatius discusses his newest novel, Phantom Orbit (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), including why this story about space warfare is spy-fi, not sci-fi.
While it may be a while before we get to take control of Splinter Cell hero Sam Fisher, the iconic video game hero isn’t just sitting around the house, watching TV. In the following email interview, writer James Swallow discusses Sam’s latest outing in novel form, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Dragonfire (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).