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Sean Black

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I write the Ryan Lock series of thrillers, which feature ex-military bodyguard Ryan Lock and his partner, former Marine, Ty Johnson. The first two books in the series, Lockdown and Deadlock, hit the Official UK Top 50 Bestseller Chart, and the third, Gridlock, has just been released in hardback. They have have also been translated into Dutch, German, and Russian.

I'm a firm believer in hands-on research, also known as 'any excuse to get out of the house', so before I wrote Lockdown, I trained for a month with former members of the Royal Military Police's specialist close protection unit. That turned out to be great preparation for Deadlock, which I researched by spending time inside Pelican Bay Supermax in California (see the TV interview on
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Average rating: 4.1 · 17,696 ratings · 1,196 reviews · 85 distinct worksSimilar authors
Lockdown (Ryan Lock, #1)

3.89 avg rating — 3,366 ratings — published 2009 — 40 editions
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The Innocent (Ryan Lock #5)

4.18 avg rating — 1,978 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions
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The Devil's Bounty (Ryan Lo...

4.14 avg rating — 1,396 ratings — published 2012 — 25 editions
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Deadlock (Ryan Lock, #2)

4.07 avg rating — 1,197 ratings — published 2010 — 27 editions
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Gridlock (Ryan Lock, #3)

4.10 avg rating — 1,114 ratings — published 2011 — 29 editions
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Winter's Rage (Byron Tibor #3)

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Second Chance (Ryan Lock #8)

4.26 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions
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Fire Point (Ryan Lock, #6)

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Post - On Sale Now

The new thriller is now on sale.

THE WAR IS COMING HOME

Exhausted by years of combat, and haunted by the ghosts of his past, nothing is going to stop special forces veteran Byron Tibor returning home to the woman he loves. But is Byron who he appears to be, and why is the American government determined to stop him?

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“Holy shit. Only in corporate America could a child abduction which had already yielded one dead body be seen as a way to make a business appear warm and cuddly.”
Sean Black, Lockdown

“...You ever been at a military base when the brass are visiting, or worse, the President? The place is unrecognizable. Everything they want the VIP to see is out front and center, and everything they don't want them to see gets squirreled away until they've gone. It's just human nature.”
Sean Black, The Deep Abiding

“Thousands of people in the city who lived in walk-ups dreamed of moving out so they could escape having to climb flights of stairs. Yet here she was, surrounded by women of her age and younger, paying for the privilege.”
Sean Black, Lockdown

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message 2: by Beth

Beth Hi Sean,
Thanks for befriending this fellow crime writer on Goodreads!


message 1: by Andy

Andy cheers for accepting me Sean,
loved your first two Ryan Lock Novels,
hopefully will buy Gridlock soon


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