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MTTA 114: Andrews and Wilson

09.22.2020

Andrews & Wilson is bestselling coauthor team of multiple covert ops and action-adventure thriller series: TIER ONE, SONS of VALOR, and THE SHEPHERDS. Brian Andrews is a US Navy veteran, Park Leadership Fellow, and former submarine officer with a psychology ...

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09.22.2020 MTTA 114: Andrews and Wilson Andrews & Wilson is bestselling coauthor team of multiple covert ops and action-adventure thriller series: TIER ONE, SONS of VALOR, and THE SHEPHERDS. Brian Andrews is a US Navy veteran, Park Leadership Fellow, and former submarine officer with a psychology ...
09.15.2020 MTTA 113: Joshua Hood Joshua Hood is the author of The Treadstone Resurrection & Search and Destroy Series. Before becoming a bestselling author, Joshua joined the army after graduating with an English degree from the University of Memphis. He spent five years in the ...
09.08.2020 MTTA 112: Thomas O’Callaghan Thomas O’Callaghan’s work has been translated for publication in Germany, Slovakia, Indonesia, the Czech Republic, China, and Italy. As an internationally acclaimed author, Mr. O’Callaghan is a member of both the Mystery Writers of America and the International Thriller Writers ...
09.01.2020 MTTA 111: Brad Parks International bestselling author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been translated into 15 languages and have won critical acclaim across ...
08.26.2020 MTTA 110: Lydia Kang Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completing her residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. ...
08.18.2020 MTTA 109: John Gilstrap John Gilstrap is the New York Times bestselling author of Total Mayhem, Scorpion Strike, Final Target, Friendly Fire, Against All Enemies, End Game, High Treason, Damage Control, Threat Warning, Hostage Zero, No Mercy, <a id="amznPsBmLink_8647887" class="amzn_ps_bm_tl" href="http://www.
08.11.2020 MTTA 108: Joseph Reid Happy to have Joseph Reid back on the podcast! I interviewed Joe back in 2018 when his writing career was starting off with the first book in his now bestselling Seth Walker series featuring the air marshal-turned-investigator who solves crimes ...
08.04.2020 MTTA 107: Tracy Clark Tracy Clark is a native Chicagoan who writes mysteries set in her hometown while working as an editor in the newspaper industry. She is a graduate of Mundelein College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, and the University ...
07.28.2020 MTTA 106: Charlie Donlea Charlie Donlea is the USA Today and International bestselling author of Summit Lake, The Girl Who Was Taken, Don’t Believe It, and Some Choose Darkness. His latest novel, The Suicide House will be available on July 28, 2020. It’s one ...
07.21.2020 MTTA 105: Michael Elias Interview Michael Elias is an award-winning writer, actor and director who has written film, television, theatre and fiction. His latest novel, You Can Go Home Now, is a timely and addictive psychological thriller featuring a female cop on the hunt for ...
07.14.2020 MTTA 104: John Bishop M.D. John Bishop writes the Doc Brady Medical Thriller series. He spent thirty years as a practicing orthopedic surgeon giving the reader a unique glimpse into the medical world with all its problems, intricacies and complexities, while at the same time ...
07.07.2020 MTTA 103: Glenn Dyer Long captivated by the events of World War II, Glenn Dyer couples this fascination with his passion for historical thrillers with the publication of “The Torch Betrayal“, the first in the Conor Thorn Series, and “The Ultra Betrayal“, the second ...
06.24.2020 MTTA 102: Marc Cameron Author of the New York Times bestselling Jericho Quinn Thriller series, Marc Cameron’s short stories have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and BOYS LIFE magazine. In late 2016, he was chosen to continue the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan/Campus Thriller ...
06.10.2020 MTTA 101: T.R. Ragan Interview T.R. Ragan (Theresa Ragan) is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author. Her exciting Lizzy Gardner series: Abducted, Dead Weight, A Dark Mind, Obsessed, Almost Dead, and Evil Never Dies, has received tremendous praise. In ...
06.03.2020 MTTA 100: Barbara Nickless Interview #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Barbara Nickless promised her mother she’d be a novelist when she grew up. What could be safer than sitting at a desk all day? But a sense of adventure led her ...
05.29.2020 MTTA 99: Scott Carson Interview Scott Carson is the pen name for a New York Times bestselling author and screenwriter. He lives in New England—just above a dam. THE CHILL is Scott’s first foray into the supernatural territory since THE RIDGE and SO COLD THE ...
05.26.2020 MTTA 98: Andrew Mayne Interview Andrew Mayne has starred in his own television show on A&E;, Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne, and on Shark Week. He’s a bestselling novelist and magician. He started his first world tour as an illusionist when he was a teenager and ...
05.20.2020 MTTA 97: Andrews & Wilson Interview Andrews & Wilson is the bestselling co-author team of several covert ops and action-adventure thriller books in the TIER ONE series and other books. Brian Andrews is a US Navy veteran, Park Leadership Fellow, and former submarine officer with a ...
04.29.2020 MTTA 96: Jason Pinter Interview Jason Pinter is the bestselling author of Hide Away, the first Rachel Marin novel, as well as five novels in his Henry Parker thriller series and the standalone novel The Castle, which have over one million copies in print worldwide ...
04.21.2020 MTTA 95: Marcia Clark Interview Marcia Clark is a bestselling author and a criminal lawyer who began her career in law as a criminal defense attorney and went on to become a prosecutor in the L.A. District Attorney’s Office in 1981. She spent ten years ...
04.07.2020 MTTA 94: Lee Goldberg Interview #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Lee Goldberg is back on the podcast to chat about his latest release FAKE TRUTH (the third book in his Ian Ludlow series). Lee Goldberg writes books and television shows (which we talk about ...
03.31.2020 MTTA 93: Dean Koontz Interview I’m honored to have Dean Koontz back on the podcast (you can catch my first interview with Dean Koontz here). When he was a senior in college, Dean Koontz won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition and has been writing ever ...
03.24.2020 MTTA 92: Gregg Hurwitz Interview Gregg Hurwitz is the New York Times, #1 internationally bestselling author of 21 thrillers, including the ORPHAN X series, and two award-winning thriller novels for teens. His novels have won numerous literary awards, graced top ten lists, and have been ...
03.10.2020 MTTA 91: Bill Brewer Author interview with Bill Brewer.
02.11.2020 MTTA 90: Matt Coyle Matt Coyle is the author of the best-selling Rick Cahill crime novels. He knew he wanted to be a crime writer when he was fourteen and his father gave him the simple art of murder by Raymond Chandler. He graduated ...
01.21.2020 MTTA 89: Peter Riva Peter Riva has spent many months over thirty years traveling throughout Africa and Europe. Much of his time was spent with the legendary guides for East African hunters and adventurers. He created a TV series in 1995 called Wild Things ...
12.31.2019 MTTA 88: Lee Goldberg #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Lee Goldberg broke into television writing with a freelance script sale to Spenser: For Hire. Since then, his TV writing & producing credits have covered a wide variety of genres, including sci-fi (seaQuest), cop ...
12.10.2019 MTTA 87: Diana Xarissa Diana has lived in several US states, the north of England and the Isle of Man. While she is currently in the US, she still misses the stunning scenery, wonderful people and fascinating history that make the Isle of Man ...
11.12.2019 MTTA 86: Dean Koontz When he was a senior in college, Dean Koontz won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition and has been writing ever since. Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with 14 hardcovers and 16 ...
11.05.2019 MTTA 85: Andrews and Wilson Brian Andrews & Jeffrey Wilson, the co-author team behind the #1 Bestselling TIER ONE series and other stand alone thrillers. Jeffrey Wilson has at one time worked as an actor, a firefighter, a paramedic, a jet pilot, a diving instructor, ...
09.25.2019 MTTA 84: Jim Heskett Jim Heskett writes award-winning mystery-thrillers (and as J.E. Heskett, post-apocalyptic thrillers), seasoned with a dash of snark. He fell in love with writing at the age of fourteen with a copy of Stephen King’s The Shining. Poetry became his first ...
08.13.2019 MTTA 83: Vince Milam Amazon Best-Selling Author Vince Milam has lived all over the world, traipsing through the Amazon, Congo, and Papua New Guinea – all the while capturing sights, experiences, and personalities that are incorporated into his writing. You can see those results ...
07.23.2019 MTTA 82: James Swallow James Swallow is a New York Times, Sunday Times and Amazon bestselling author, a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominee, a former journalist and the award-winning writer of over fifty books, along with numerous scripts for video ...
07.10.2019 MTTA 81: Michael Lindley Michael Lindley is a #1 Amazon author for “Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense” as well as “Historical Mysteries” with his debut novel “The EmmaLee Affairs.” Most recently, his “Lies We Never See” reached #1 for “Historical Thrillers” and “Psychological Thrillers”. His ...
06.04.2019 MTTA 80: Mike Omer Mike Omer is the author of the Zoe Bentley Mystery Series and the Glenmore Park Mystery Series. In the past, he’s been a journalist, and a game developer. He lives with his wife and daughter in Israel. Mike loves to ...
05.21.2019 MTTA 79: Mike Gomes Mike Gomes is an Amazon #1 best selling author who loves writing fast paced, action packed thrillers. The desire to create fun, page turning books that lets readers slip away into another world is what drives him to write. Mike ...
05.14.2019 MTTA 78: D.P. Lyle DP Lyle, MD is the Amazon #1 and USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of more than a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction including the Samantha Cody, Dub Walker, and Jake Longly thriller series and the Royal Pains hit ...
04.09.2019 MTTA 77: Robert Dugoni Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author of The Tracy Crosswhite series, which has sold over 2,000,000 books and My Sister’s Grave has been optioned for television series development. ...
03.26.2019 MTTA 76: Lauren Carr Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Thorny Rose, Mac Faraday, Lovers in Crime, and Chris Matheson Cold Case Mysteries—over twenty titles across four fast-paced mystery series filled with twists and turns! Book reviewers and readers alike rave ...
02.12.2019 MTTA 75: William L. Myers, Jr. William L. Myers, Jr. is the No. 6 best-selling author for Amazon Kindle in 2017 for his debut novel, A Criminal Defense. That was the first in what has become the Philadelphia Legal Series. Born into a blue-collar family in ...
01.10.2019 MTTA 74: Peter May Peter May is an author, screenwriter, and creator of television drama. Peter May was born in Glasgow but now lives in France where his books have won several awards and he has a large following of fans. He was recently ...
11.27.2018 MTTA 73: Gavin Reese Gavin Reese grew up in the rural American Southwest, eventually moving to the Big City with his family, and considers both New Mexico and Arizona home. Gavin is a police officer. Since completing the police academy and field training, Gavin ...
10.17.2018 MTTA 72: James Scott Bell James Scott Bell is a winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for his novel, Romeo’s Way, and the #1 bestselling author of books on the craft of writing. Jim attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where he studied ...
09.12.2018 MTTA 71: Bob Mayer Bob Mayer is a NY Times Bestselling author. He’s had over 75 books published and sold over 5 million, including the #1 series Area 51, The Green Berets, Atlantis and the Time Patrol. He was born in the Bronx, New ...
08.14.2018 MTTA 70: Michael Lister Michael Lister grew up in a small town in North Florida near the Gulf of Mexico and the Apalachicola River. Captivated by story since childhood, Michael has a love for language and narrative inspired by the Southern storytelling tradition that ...
07.31.2018 MTTA 69: Ellison Cooper Ellison Cooper has a Ph.D. in anthropology from UCLA, with a background in archaeology, cultural neuroscience, ancient religion, colonialism, and human rights. She has conducted fieldwork in Central America, West Africa, Micronesia, and Western Europe. She has worked as a ...
07.17.2018 MTTA 68: Joseph Reid Joseph Reid is the debut author of Takeoff, the first adventure of air marshal-turned-investigator Seth Walker. The son of a navy helicopter pilot, Reid chased great white sharks as a marine biologist before becoming a patent lawyer who litigates multi-million-dollar ...
06.01.2018 MTTA 67: Matthew Betley Matthew Betley writes the bestselling Logan West Thrillers. He grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended St. Xavier High School and then Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he graduated with a B.A. in psychology and minors in political science ...
04.17.2018 MTTA 66: Thomas Greanias Thomas Greanias is a New York Times bestselling novelist and one of the world’s leading authors of adventure. His books in print have been translated into multiple languages and sold in 200 nations around the globe. A former journalist and ...
04.03.2018 MTTA 65: David F. Berens David Berens is a professional tennis player, teaching folks how to play tennis as well writing crime thrillers. He has traveled up and down the East Coast and has been a tourist at every beach from Key West to Pawleys ...

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