A uthor Biographies

Ted Bell is a native Floridian. He began his career in advertising as a copywriter at Doyle Dane Bernbach in New York. He has also worked in Chicago, where he was president of the Leo Burnett Company, and later served as vice chairman and worldwide creative director of Young & Rubicam in both London and New York. Ted is the New York Times bestselling author of three action‑adventure thrillers: Hawke, Assassin and Pirate. The series features the dashing British intelligence agent Alex Hawke. Ted lives in Florida where he writes thrillers, reads and messes about in boats. Visit Ted at his Web site, www.tedbellbooks.com.

Steve Berry, a New York Times bestselling writer, lives on the Georgia coast. He's a lawyer who has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe and Russia. Steve's thrillers include The Amber Room, The Romanov Prophecy, The Third Secret and The Templar Legacy. His novels have been feature selections for major book clubs, chosen as BookSense picks, and have been sold in thirty‑two countries. Visit his Web site at www.steveberry.org.

Grant Blackwood caught the writing bug while reading Clive Cussler's The Mediterranean Caper. He's a U.S. Navy veteran, having spent three years on active duty aboard a guided‑missile frigate as an operations specialist and pilot rescue swimmer. He's been writing for nineteen years and lives in Minnesota, where he's working on a new thriller series.

Previously a television director, trade union organizer, theater‑lighting designer, stage manager and law student, Lee Child has been an author for nine years and has published ten Jack Reacher novels. He was born in England but now lives in New York City and the south of France. Currently his books are sold in forty‑one countries and have all been international bestsellers.

David Dun, a native of Washington State transplanted to California, where he manages a law practice, acts as general counsel to a large, privately held corporation, and writes. He is the national bestselling author of five action‑adventure novels, Necessary Evil, At The Edge, Overfall, Unacceptable Risk and The Black Silent, which are currently published in eight languages. When he's not parked at a desk, he enjoys cruising the waters of Washington State and British Columbia.

New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Heather Graham majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, backup vocals and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write, working on short horror stories and romances.

Since then, she has written over one hundred novels and novellas. Her books are currently published in twenty languages. Graham loves to travel and enjoys anything that has to do with the water, including being a certified scuba diver.

After twelve years as a Miami trial lawyer, James Grippando is now the national bestselling author of ten suspenseful thrillers. Got The Look is his fifth book featuring Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck, a series that critics have applauded as "John Grisham meets Robert Ludlum." He's also the author of a thriller for young readers, Leapholes, the first novel for children ever to be published by the American Bar Association. James was the 2005 recipient of the Distinguished Author Award from Scranton University, and his novels are enjoyed worldwide in over twenty languages. He lives and writes in south Florida.

Denise Hamilton is a Fulbright scholar and Los Angeles Times reporter who turned to crime and thriller writing after her two children were born. Her bestselling Eve Diamond series has been short‑listed for the Edgar, Anthony, Willa Cather and Britain's prestigious Dagger awards. Her book Last Lullaby was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2004. Visit her at www.denisehamilton.com.

Raelynn Hillhouse has run Cuban rum between East and West Berlin, smuggled jewels from the Soviet Union and forged Eastern bloc visas. A native of the Missouri Ozarks, Raelynn has lived for over six years in Europe, has traveled in over forty countries and is fluent in several languages. She earned her Ph.D. in political science at the University of Michigan and is a former professor and Fulbright fellow. She has not only faced the barrels of Kalashnikovs, but has also been caught in the crossfire of border guards' snowball fights. Raelynn lives in

Hawaii on the slopes of Mauna Loa volcano. Her debut thriller, Rift Zone, received widespread national acclaim.

Gregg Hurwitz is the bestselling author of The Tower, Minutes to Burn, Do No Harm, The Kill Clause, The Program, and most recently, Troubleshooter. His novels have been feature selections for all four major literary book clubs, chosen as BookSense picks and translated into seven languages. Gregg adapted Rogue Warrior for Jerry Bruckheimer Films and The Kill Clause for Paramount Pictures. He holds a B.A. from Harvard in English and psychology, and a master's degree in Shakespearean tragedy from Trinity College, Oxford. He's published numerous short stories, articles, reviews, and academic articles, and lectured at Harvard, UCLA and USC. Visit his Web site at www.gregghurwitz.net.

Alex Kava is the author of the international bestselling series featuring FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell and the critically acclaimed thriller, One False Move. Her novels have sold almost two million copies and have been published in twenty countries. They have appeared on the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller lists, as well as making bestseller lists across the globe. Alex divides her time between Omaha, Nebraska, and Pensacola, Florida.

J. A. Konrath is the author of the Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels thrillers. His short stories have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies, and he currently teaches fiction writing and marketing at the College of Dupage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He lives in Chicago with his wife, a few kids and dogs. Visit him at www.JAKonrath.com.

John Lescroart is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels, including thirteen in the Dismas Hardy/Abe Glitsky series of books set in San Francisco. He lives with his wife and their children in northern California.

Robert Liparulo is an award‑winning author of over a thousand published articles and short stories for such publications as New Man, Reader's Digest, and even Modern Bride. He has written (and sold) screenplays, celebrity profiles and investigative exposes, but he always returns to his first love, fiction. As testament to his vivid and fast‑paced style, his debut novel, Comes a Horseman, ignited a bidding war in Hollywood for the movie rights‑months before its publication. Liparulo lives in Colorado with his wife, Jodi, and their four children. Find him online at www.robertliparulo.com.

David Liss is the author of two bestselling novels featuring Benjamin Weaver‑A Conspiracy of Paper and A Spectacle of Corruption‑ in addition to two stand‑alone thrillers, The Coffee Trader and The Ethical Assassin. His books have won numerous awards, including the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and they have been translated into more than a dozen languages. The Devil's Company will be the third Benjamin Weaver novel. Liss lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Eric Van Lustbader is the internationally bestselling author of The Ninja, Art Kills, The Bourne Legacy, The Bravo Testament and twenty‑six other novels, both thrillers and fantasy, plus a host of short stories. He graduated from Columbia College in 1968 and spent fifteen years in the pop music industry. He has also been a New York City schoolteacher. For more information, visit him at www.ericvanlustbader.com.

Dennis Lynds, aka Michael Collins, wrote the Dan Fortune series that began in 1967. There are now nineteen Dan Fortune books, the most recent being Fortune's World, a collection of short stories spanning from 1963 to 2000. His most recent thriller, The Cadillac Cowboy, featured a new protagonist whose name may or may not be Ford Morgan. As Mark Sadler, John Crowe, William Arden and Carl Dekker, he published another eighteen crime novels and thirteen juvenile crime novels. As Dennis Lynds, he published three novels and two collections of stories, the most recent being Talking To the World. A fourth Lynds novel, Pictures On a Bedroom Wall, is forthcoming. Lynds won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar and has been nominated for two more. Born in St. Louis, he was raised in England. Later, his parents, both English actors, returned to the States and he grew up in Los Angeles, Denver and New York City. Sadly, Dennis died in August, 2005, leaving behind his wife, bestselling novelist Gayle Lynds.

New York Times bestseller Gayle Lynds is the author of eight international espionage thrillers, including The Last Spymaster, The Coil and Masquerade, which have been published in twenty countries. Lynds is generally considered the first woman to write successfully in the thriller field since Helen Maclnnes. With Robert Ludlum she created the Covert‑One thriller series. She is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Operatives and is a cofounder of International Thriller Writers, Inc. You can visit her at www.GayleLynds.com.

Chris Mooney was twenty‑eight when he published his first thriller, Deviant Ways. He is also the author of The Missing, World Without End and Remembering Sarah, which was nominated for a Barry Award and the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Visit him at www.chrismooneybooks.com.

David Morrell is the author of First Blood, the award‑winning novel in which Rambo was created. He holds a Ph.D. in American literature from the Pennsylvania State University and was a professor in the English department at the University of Iowa, until he gave up his tenure to devote himself to a full‑time writing career. David has published twenty‑eight books, which have been translated into twenty‑six languages. His numerous bestselling thrillers include Creepers, The Brotherhood of the Rose and Extreme

Denial, which is set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives. His Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing is an analysis of what he has learned during his thirty‑seven years as a writer. He is a cofounder of International Thriller Writers, Inc.

Katherine Neville was for many years an international consultant and computer expert, numbering among her clients and employers the Department of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, OPEC, IBM, the Algerian government and the Bank of America. She has also been a professional model, portrait painter and commercial photographer. Katherine's first novel, The Eight, has been translated into nearly thirty languages and was recently voted one of the top ten books of all time, in a national poll in Spain. Her second book, A Calculated Risk, was a New York Times Notable Book, and The Magic Circle was a USA TODAY and an international bestseller. Katherine lives in Virginia, Washington D.C., and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Michael Palmer is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He started writing as a hobby in 1979 and has since published eleven novels of medical suspense, all international bestsellers. His work has been translated into thirty languages, and Extreme Measures was made into a film starring Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker. He's an avid tennis player and scuba diver, and holds the rank of bronze life master in bridge. Palmer lives in Massachusetts with the youngest of his three sons, Luke. Daniel James Palmer, Michael's middle son, holds a master's degree in communications from Boston University, and is a musician, songwriter and software professional. He lives with his wife and son in Southern New Hampshire, where he mountain bikes and plays tennis.

In one of the more unusual‑and successful‑writing collaborations in recent memory, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have coauthored ten bestselling thrillers over the past fifteen years. They met when Child, then a young editor at St. Martin's Press, asked Preston, a writer for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, to pen a nonfiction history of the museum. The two later teamed up to write The Relic, set in a fictitious natural history museum, which was made into a hit film by Paramount Pictures. Their protagonist, the eccentric and brilliant Special Agent Pendergast, has become a cult hero among thriller readers. They also work solo: Child has written two thrillers and produced numerous ghost story anthologies, while Preston has written four nonfiction books and three thrillers, as well as occasional articles for the New Yorker magazine. Child is an aficionado of motorcycles, rare books, fast cars and exotic parrots, while Preston is a horseman and a member of the elite Long Riders' Guild. Both writers like to point out that they graduated from college with a "useless" degree in English literature.

Christopher Reich was born in Tokyo. A graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Texas at Austin, he worked in Switzerland before returning to the United States to pursue a career as a novelist. He's the bestselling author of five acclaimed novels, Numbered Account, The Runner, The First Billion, The Devil's Banker and The Patriot's Club. He lives in California with his wife and children.

Christopher Rice is the New York Times bestselling author of A Density of Souls, The Snow Garden and Light Before Day. He is also a regular columnist for The Advocate. The Snow Garden won a Lambda Literary Award. Rice lives in West Hollywood.

James Rollins is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous thrillers, including Map of Bones. You'll often find him underground or underwater as an amateur caver and scuba diver.

From these hobbies sprang his earlier thrillers Subterranean, Amazonia, Ice Hunt and Sandstorm.

M. J. Rose is the international bestselling author of eight thrillers, including The Halo Effect, The Delilah Complex and The Venus Fix. She has been a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award and the Anthony Award. She has also coauthored two nonfiction books and is on the board of International Thriller Writers, Inc. Her work has also appeared in Wired.com, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Poets & Writers. She is presently published in ten countries, including Japan, Israel and Russia. In addition, Rose runs the popular Buzz, Balls and Hype and Backstory blogs and is the creator of AuthorBuzz.com. Visit all of these at www.mjrose.com.

James Siegel is the New York Times bestselling author of Derailed and Detour. His first thriller, Epitaph, was nominated for a Shamus Award as best first novel. Derailed, with Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston, was released in 2004 as a major motion picture, and Detour is in production.

Brad Thor, a native of Chicago and a graduate of the University of Southern California, is the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Lions of Lucerne, Path of the Assassin, State of the Union and Blowback. He and his family divide their time between Park City, Utah, and the Greek island of Antiparos. Visit his Web site at www.bradthor.com.

M. Diane Vogt is the author of the acclaimed Judge Wilhelmina Carson legal thrillers. The Chinese government purchased and translated Diane's fiction and nonfiction as an entertaining read, reflective of American life and the legal system. A lawyer in private practice for more than twenty‑five years, Diane has represented the world's largest corporations as well as individuals and governments.

F. Paul Wilson is the award‑winning, New York Times bestsell‑ing author of thirty books and over a hundred short stories spanning horror, adventure, medical thrillers, science fiction and virtually everything in between. More than seven million copies of his books are in print in the United States and his work has been translated into twenty‑four languages. He also has written for the stage, screen and interactive media. Wilson is the creator of the popular Repairman Jack thrillers.

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