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Bob Mayer

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I'm a West Point graduate, former Green Beret and a New York Times Bestselling Author. I've sold over five million books.

I love using history and science in my books. My Area 51 series pretty much had me rewriting our entire history of civilization.

I also collaborate with Jennifer Crusie on our unique brand of suspense thrillers with humor.
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Bob Mayer I write about things that interest me and I'm passionate about the theme. In my nonfiction, I focus on things that will help people. In fiction, I lik…moreI write about things that interest me and I'm passionate about the theme. In my nonfiction, I focus on things that will help people. In fiction, I like exploring possibilities, especially that of the human mind.

For my wife and I, our hobby is story and characters. We study it all the time. (less)
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Classic Atkinson. Heavy on detail, but interesting details.

Each of his books highlights the main topic but hits on aspects I was unaware of. In this book, the turmoil in England, near Civil War, while we fought the Revolution was eye-opening.

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“Content is King. Promotion is Queen”
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“In darkness there is death.”
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“It’s more in line with the warnings they put on plastic laundry covers: Don’t wrap this around your head: could be bad for you. I think Darwinism has to get a chance to work. The more we protect stupid people from themselves, the more we ensure the long, slow descent of the human race into idiocracy.”
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