The Deadfall Project -- Not Just Another Spy Thriller

I trekked off to France thinking that I´d be working on a piece of historical fiction that was probably going to become my latest in a long-series of half-finished books. I believed that the beauty and timelessness of France was just the boost I needed to get my creative juices flowing again. The Deadfall Project is the result of that trip -- and not at all what I had imagined.

When I arrived in France, my computer died. Alone, and no way to work on my latest project, I began to amuse myself by making up stories. Those stories were the first seeds of The Deadfall Project, and five years later, it was finished.

The plot of The Deadfall Project revolves around ex-CIA agent, Grey Stark, as he emerges from a two-year retirement to track down a deadly bomb – even as NATO troops are gathering at Iran´s border to try and stop a terrifying threat to world peace.

Stark and his ex-wife streak through Paris and all of France in an attempt to find the bomb – also discovering a lot about themselves and the mistakes they´ve made in the past. There are car chases and tense moments as Stark realizes he´s being hunted by a sharp-shooter gunman, much of the world´s intelligence agencies and a playboy terrorist.

The real shocker to Stark comes when he realizes that his own boss is attempting to track him down and would do anything to preserve the unique and telling secrets of The Deadfall Project. Now, Stark realizes that he can´t quit even if he wanted to.

While writing The Deadfall Project, I constantly thought of balancing the thinking that goes into a fluffy, action-packed novel with the slow plot intrigue of others. I wanted the reader to be a part of the action while enjoying the descriptions of places and people in the book and enjoying the mystery as the story unfolds.

One question that I´d like readers to ask themselves when they finish reading The Deadfall Project is, "Why do we go to war?" Right now, we´re engaged in a "chess-match" that has been ongoing since Revolutionary times – and we don´t see our enemies as we once did. Our thinking has to change.

I hope that readers of The Deadfall Project will come away with a new way of thinking about spies and how governments attempt to solve our modern-day problems. Through fiction and other means, we need to realize and promote the fact that there are no super villains in the reality of today´s world. Even our current weapons and organizations are powerless to stop terrorists and other threats to world peace.