It’s a city that defies time. A city of more completely intertwined cultures than perhaps anywhere else in America—Spanish, French, Native American, English. All woven together over hundreds of years to create a modern-day artwork we call New Orleans.

Mason’s adventure in a bank kicks off in Jacksonville, a city I’ve long wanted to explore. I took several trips to coastal Florida this year to prepare for Fire Team, and of course there were plenty of pictures.

For the third Mason Sharpe adventure, I knew I wanted to switch gears away from the big city and take Mason someplace slow and rural. Someplace I was very familiar with.

He’s my brand-new action hero: A former Army Ranger turned homicide detective turned wanderer. Mason Sharpe has all the tools required to unlock the case, with none of the rules standing in his way.

Victims take heart. Bad guys take cover.

It’s no secret that I’m a motor head, and many of my characters share my addiction! Collected here is a list, complete with photographs*, of the best cars that appear in the Reed Montgomery Series.

Wolfgang Pierce — a globetrotting, no-limits espionage operative with a sexy fellow operator to win and terrorists to catch. His series is fast-paced, action-packed, and one of the most challenging things I’ve ever written.

If 2020 was anything, it was a great year for reading. Confined to a studio apartment with two cats that gradually felt more and more like Wilson from Castaway, I managed 71 books for the year, including lots of random nonfiction titles and an assortment of fiction titles outside my usual genre preferences. Here are my top three favorites, fiction and nonfiction, in no particular hierarchy . . .