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Blog postThe new thriller is now on sale.
THE WAR IS COMING HOME
Exhausted by years of combat, and haunted by the ghosts of his past, nothing is going to stop special forces veteran Byron Tibor returning home to the woman he loves. But is Byron who he appears to be, and why is the American government determined to stop him?
From the blood-soaked mountains of the Hindu Kush to the glittering lights of Manhattan, via the dark underbelly of the Las Vegas Strip, POST is -
Blog postThe new novel, POST, will be released very soon in paperback and ebook. In the meantime, here is a short promo trailer for it.
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Blog postThanks to everyone who took the trouble to buy and read Lock & Load, the long short story/novella, I published before Christmas. It was a great success and I know lots of people had fun reading it. In a few weeks it will be rolling out to Apple, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo. For now you can buy it here, both in e-book, and paper. If you have read it, enjoyed it, then please take a few moments to post a short review. Online reviews are immensely helpful to authors.
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Blog postLock & Load, the first Ryan Lock short story, is now available as a Kindle ebook at Amazon. It's also on sale at Kobo, and will be available shortly at all 50 Apple iBookstores, and in Nook format. The trade paperback is on its way.
Here are the Amazon links:
http://www.amazon.com/Lock-Load-Ryan-Short-ebook/dp/B00ALYGCZM/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lock-Load-Ryan-Short-ebook/dp/B00ALYGCZM/
The ebooks are all DRM free so you can transfer them between devices, and don't ha -
Blog postThe very talented Joie Simmons, whose work can be found here, has completed the e-book and print cover for the very first Ryan Lock short story, Lock & Load.
Here is the e-book cover:
Great job, Joie!
It's in final proofing and formatting stages. In the meantime, here is the next chapter....
TwoNEXT TO THE word bodyguard, Ryan Lock's least favourite description for his profession had to be bullet catcher. Although sacrificing your life -
Blog postThe first short story featuring Lock and Ty is on its way. It will go on sale shortly as an e-book, and then in trade paperback.
About The Story
Fresh from a stint undercover in Pelican Bay Supermax prison in Northern California, close protection operative Ryan Lock and his business partner, Ty Johnson, are in Los Angeles, tasked with protecting a young Hollywood actress from an abusive movie star boyfriend who refuses to accept that their relationship is over. But as Lo -
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Blog postThe new Ryan Lock thriller goes on sale August, 2nd. It will be available in hardback and e-book in the UK and paperback and e-book in the US. A Spanish language version will be available later in the year.
Prologue
Santa Barbara, California
It was eight o’clock on Friday evening and the bars and clubs that ran the length of State Street were already filling up. Three frat boys wove an unsteady path out of the James Joyce Irish bar, before collapsing in a good-natured he -
Blog postOn Sunday at quarter to eight in the morning, my father died. He was at home with his family. He had been ill for some time but in his final days the deterioration was fast. We were extremely close and I am heartbroken that he's gone but hugely grateful that I had this man as my father.
His story is a remarkable one. Born in 1931 into a working class family, economic necessity meant that he had to leave school at fourteen to go and work as a laborer in the local saw mill. Hard, back breaki -
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Blog postThe full Ryan Lock series is available for Kindle here:
These links will also take you to a page where you can link to print and in some cases the audio versions of the series. The Devil's Bounty (Lock 4) is out in August - links coming soon, including to Waterstones, WH Smith, Asda (Walmart) etc.
Amazon.com
Lockdown (Ryan Lock 1)
Deadlock (Ryan Lock 2)
Gridlock (Ryan Lock 3)
Amazon UK
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Deadlock
Gridlock
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Blog postWe now have an official release date for the fourth thriller featuring Ryan Lock and Ty Johnson. The Devil's Bounty will be released by Bantam/Transworld in hardcover in the UK, and will also be available internationally (with free shipping) here on the 2nd of August this year. The paperback of the third book, Gridlock, is slated for release on the 6th of July.
As with the rest of the series if you haven't read any of the other books then don't worry, you can jump str -
Blog post2011 was a year of surprises. Most of them pleasant. The third book in the Ryan Lock series, Gridlock, was published in hardcover over the summer, and so far it seems to be performing even stronger, especially in e-book, than the first two books in the series – a good omen for this summer when it's released in paperback.
Initial sales of the paperback of Deadlock were, per the usual sophomore slump, a bit down on Lockdown's numbers but it still made the top 50 in its first full week on sal -
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Blog postWednesday night saw me on stage in Dublin with Lee Child as he dropped by on his whirlwind promotional tour for the new Jack Reacher thriller, The Affair. Incidentally, if you haven't read it yet, you should. It's the big man at the top of his game, and you just know he had fun writing it, which is the guarantee of a cracking read.
Lee is a model professional, and despite the fact that he'd had an extremely long day he was both entertaining and engaging. There were the inevitable qu -
Blog postA quick news update:
Work continues apace on Lock 4, and it's starting to vaguely resemble a novel.
Next month I'll be appearing alongside Lee Child at the Easons store on O'Connell Street in Dublin. Details here: http://www.seanblackbooks.com/events.php
The audiobook of Gridlock is on the way, and I am delighted to tell you that the narrator is Jeff Harding, who also narrated The Da Vinci Code, The Bourne series, and, yes, Lee's Reacher books.
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Blog post...or perhaps it's the other way around?
I give you Exhibit A, where Ms. Gerritsen is to be found strategically placed next to a whole dump bin of paperbacks of Lockdown. By the way, that small child has the look of a man gathering forensic science tips in order to pull off the perfect murder at a later date.
Exhibit B: Who is the first author who should appear in the 'Also Boughts' next to the Kindle version of Lockdown on Amazon.com?
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Blog postAll three of the Lock books are now available for Kindle in the USA and Canada. They'll be rolling out to Barnes and Noble Nook, the Apple Store (US and Canada) and Kobo soon. But for now Amazon is the place to go for the ebooks, which are very reasonably priced compared to the UK, German, Dutch and Russian paper editions.
If you are in the US or Canada, would like a hardcover or paperback, and are having trouble finding one, please contact me via the website or on Facebook (www.facebook.c -
Blog postGridlock is now available for pre-order on Amazon (at a very reasonable price). It will also, so I'm told, be available for sale in hardback (again at a good price) at Asda.
As ARCs have rolled out and Amazon Vine reviews have rolled in, it's been gratifying to see the overwhelmingly positive response. All I can is say that writing it, I felt like I was getting closer to what I wanted than with the previous two books. A lot of that is down to my editor and friend, Selina Walker, who -
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Blog postHappy to report that the paperback of Deadlock made the UK's official Top 50 Bestselling Books chart. So I'm now two for two as Lockdown achieved the same feat. Thanks to everyone who went out and bought the books and made it all possible.
I think everyone in publishing was happy to see a deal to secure the future of Waterstones. I have visited quite a few branches as an author and the one thing I will say is that the staff are unfailingly excellent. From what I gather they've -
Blog postWith the release of Deadlock, I've had quite a bit of email and Facebook messages from readers. Some are just discovering Ryan Lock and some have been eagerly awaiting the release of the second book. I can't begin to describe how much it means to me when people get in touch to share their enjoyment of the books. Doing media, swanky publishing events, book launches, all of these pale in comparison to someone taking a few minutes of their time to drop me a line. It's a massive buzz for me and I r
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Blog postTo research the first book in the series, which was also my debut, I underwent an intensive three and a half week bodyguard training course in the UK and Eastern Europe. Living in barracks with over a dozen other men, as well as the rigors of learning the close protection game, took me well outside my comfort zone. DEADLOCK would take me even further outside those boundaries.
In January, 2009, after an extended period of negotiation with the California Department of Corrections, I arrived -
Blog postWhich, in my case, stands for Pre Manuscript Tension. I suffer from it. I'm fine when I have events and promotion and media to do, but when I am between books, as I have been recently, I confess freely that I am not the happiest camper.
Last year I bumped into Brian Kennedy, the very talented Northern Irish singer and writer, while doing a radio interview in Dublin. We got chatting, as you do, and he used the word hormonal in connection with his own work and in particular his prose. In our -
Blog post“I'm fifty-nine-years old, man. I never thought my life was going to end up like this.”
The words belong to Steve and they haunt me as I write this, a few short days after I meet him for the first time. We are standing next to Steve's home, a small tent positioned six hundred yards inside a ten foot by ten foot concrete storm drain next to one of the most famous landmarks in Las Vegas, Nevada. Steve has lived here for the past six years. He has bright blue eyes, a neatly trimmed beard and -
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Blog postRight now I am reviewing copy edits for the third Lock book, Gridlock, which will be released in hardback in August. I'm also hastily putting together a new research trip, which is going to involve learning how to survive in Arizona's bleak but stunning Painted Desert, followed up by some time exploring a side of Las Vegas which the tourists don't see.
The key to organising the research I do is to not think about it. I'll be out in The Painted Desert over at least two days and one n -
Blog postIt's great to see the success of Gregg Hurwitz's latest thriller, You're Next, in the UK. I am a huge fan of Gregg's work and it's gratifying to see that more and more people are discovering one of the great modern thriller writers whose work often eclipses much bigger names. Now all those people who loved You're Next need to go and read his fantastic backlist, including the unbelievably good Rackley series.
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Blog postThe third book of the Lock series, Gridlock, is now with the Transworld copyeditor. It will be released in the UK and Ireland (and lots of other places) in August. Authors can be notoriously bad judges of their own work but I will say that I am intensely proud of Gridlock. It has all the action and suspense of the previous two Lock adventures but this time we go a little deeper and there is more of a psychological edge. It also has a truly shocking ending. Anyway, here is the cover for it, desi
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Blog postOn the 6th of January, Matt Hilton's latest Joe Hunter thriller Cut and Run goes on sale in paperback in the UK and Ireland. Matt's series is terrific fun, full of action and he gets better with every book so look out for it.
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Avenue of Thieves: A Ryan Lock Crime Thriller
May 30, 2020
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