Grid Zero: What Andrew Diamond's Fiction Teaches Us About Grid Collapse, Cyber Threats, and National Security

On From Fact To Fiction, we review fantastic specialty thrillers, and unravel fact from fiction.

In this episode, award-winnning author and software expert Andrew Diamond joined me to discuss Andrew’s book Grid Zero, a new 2025 novel. Grid Zero is a suspenseful thriller that addresses the fragility in our electric utility grid, and the potential devastating consequences of natural or criminal attacks.

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Rinse and Repeat: The Rehab Racket

On From Fact To Fiction, we review fantastic specialty thrillers, and unravel fact from fiction.

In this episode, medical thriller author and health care systems expert Darryl Bollinger joined me to discuss Darryl’s book Treatment Plan, a 2023 novel. Treatment Plan is a suspenseful thriller that immerses the reader in the complex and corrupt world of drug addiction treatment.

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Meet Carmen Amato, Author of the Emilia Cruz police procedural series set in Acapulco, the political thriller The Hidden Light of Mexico City, and the Galliano Club historical fiction thrillers.

Find Carmen at carmenamato.net or mysteryahead.subtack.com.

Carmen and I discuss the facts behind the fiction of Karla's Choice in our full book review, which you can find on Substack, YouTube or our Podcast.

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On From Fact To Fiction, we review fantastic specialty thrillers, and unravel fact from fiction.

In this episode, mystery/thriller author and retired CIA intelligence officer Carmen Amato joined me to review Karla’s Choice, a 2024 novel by Nick Harkaway that continues the George Smiley spy thriller series.

This fabulous novel is penned by le Carré's son, who writes under the name Nick Harkaway. But did Harkaway accurately portray 1963 spy craft and continue John le Carre's legacy? Listen to find out.

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Meet Kevin Bohacz, Author of Immortality and Ghost of the Gods, epic techno-thrilling sagas.

Immortality finds humanity threatened by an ancient and invisible threat, in the form of deadly bacteria that kills precisely and suddenly.

Kevin and I discuss the facts behind the fiction of Immortality in our full book review, which you can find on Substack, YouTube or our Podcast.

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Will the smallest forms of life be the greatest risk to humanity?

In this episode, Host L M (Linda) Whitaker and Guest Expert Kevin Bohacz review his novel, Immortality.

Immortality is an epic techno-thrilling saga where the most dangerous threat to humanity is an ancient bacteria that can coordinate, communicate and kill.

Join us as we discuss how much of Bohacz’s Fiction is Fact? Are the claims made in Immortality possible?

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Can Scientists Really Bring Back The Wooly Mammoth?

In This Episode, Host L M (Linda) Whitaker and Guest Expert Michael San Francisco review Douglas Preston's 2024 novel, Extinction.

Extinction is a gripping and fast-paced police-procedural meets science-thriller with unexpected twists and a thought-provoking premise: the de-extinction of lost species, one of which is the Woolly Mammoth.

Join us as we discuss how much of Preston's Fiction is Fact? Are the claims made in Extinction possible?

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