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My debut novel, Doha 12, is now available for Kindle on Amazon UK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AOYOMQK). See the next post for more details.

I've been an Air Force intelligence officer, information technology manager, computer-game artist, set designer, Jeopardy! contestant, and now an emergency management specialist. I've had training in architectural rendering, terrorist incident response and maritime archaeology, but not all at the same time. I tweet on shipwrecks, archaeology and scuba diving.

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Jake Eldar’s and Miriam Schaffer’s names may kill them.

Jake manages a bookstore in Brooklyn. Miriam is a secretary at a Philadelphia law firm. Both grew up in Israel and emigrated to build new lives in America. Neither knows the other exists…until the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad uses their identities in an operation to assassinate a high-ranking Hezbollah commander in Doha, Qatar.

Now Hezbollah plans to kill them both.

Jake, Miriam and ten other innocents in five countries – the Doha 12 – awake to find their identities stolen and their lives caught between Mossad and Hezbollah in an international game of murder and reprisal. Jake stumbles upon Hezbollah’s plot but can't convince the police it exists. When his wife is murdered in a botched hit meant for him, Jake and Miriam try desperately to outrun and outfight their pursuers while shielding Jake's young daughter from the killers on their trail.

Hezbollah, however, has a fallback plan: hundreds of people will die if Jake and Miriam survive.

Inspired by actual events, Doha 12 will sweep you from the suburbs of Beirut and Tel Aviv to a pulse-pounding climax in the wintry streets of Manhattan as Jake and Miriam race along the thin, faded gray line between good and bad, hero and villain, truth and lies.


Doha 12 is available for Kindle through Amazon US | Canada | UK | DE | FR | IT | JP
Trade paperback available through Amazon US | Canada | UK | AbeBooks | Alibris US | Alibris UK | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository (UK) | Books-a-Million | Booktopia (AU) | Indiebound | Powell's | The Nile (AU) | Vroman's
Trade paperback also available (in English) through Adlibris (SE) | Agapea (ES) | eBook.de (DE) | Suomalainen (FI)
ePub edition for Nook and Kobo coming in March

Seeley James -- author of The Geneva Decision and former KBR reviewer -- has posted an outrageously good review of Doha 12 on his blog. A shorter version is here on Goodreads.

Check out the review at http://seeleyjames.com/2013/02/25/rev.... Then check out Doha 12 , available on Kindle and in trade paperback.

True crime alert: I’m back among the Criminal Element again, this time with a story about antiquities smuggling:

"Our story begins with a pot and a pig.

"In 1970, an Italian man working on a canal near Naples discovered a remarkable piece of crockery: a 27-inch-tall, double-handled chalice or krater, black with red painted figures. A black marketeer offered the worker a million lire ($1,533 then) and a suckling pig for the chalice. An old pot was useless; a pig, the worker could use.

"The black marketeer then sold the krater to Gianfranco Becchina, owner of the Antike Kunst Palladion gallery in Basel, Switzerland. Becchina recognized the krater as a masterwork by Asteas, a Greek vase painter active in Paestum (an ancient Greek colony outside present-day Naples) between 350 and 320 B.C. It was worth a lot more than a pig.

"Of course, this was all totally illegal."

Read the rest of the article here.

I'll be appearing live on Ashley Fontainne's Artist First web-talk show on Sunday, 10 March, at 5:00 PM PDT.

Both Ashley and I are Goodreads authors. I expect we'll be talking about my international thriller Doha 12 and writing in general.

You can listen here: http://www.artistfirst.com/ashleyfont.... If you can't make it, you can also download the interview from the same address.

I’m consorting with the Criminal Element again, this time with a profile on the Australian gangster TV series The Straits:

Things we think about when we think of Australia: kangaroos, the Sydney Opera House, endless beaches, tropical reefs, Paul Hogan, Anna Torv (or Elle Macpherson, if you’re of a certain age).

Things we don’t think about when we think of Australia: meth smuggling, organized crime, biker gangs, human trafficking, torture, mob hits.

The Straits is about the things we don’t think about.

Read the rest of the article here.

Doha 12 is now available for Nook in the U.S. and UK, and on Kobo worldwide.

If you've wanted an e-book edition but don't have a Kindle, your wait is over.

The ePub edition of Doha 12 is now available on iTunes for reading on your iPad, iPod or iPhone.

You can also read Doha 12 on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and paper. However you read it, read it today!

William Davis, author of the Mike Gage thrillers, has posted a most excellent review of Doha 12 on Goodreads.

Check out the review at http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/.... Then check out Doha 12 , available on Kindle, Nook, Kobo and in trade paperback.

I’m involved in another flirtation with the Criminal Element. This time, it’s a review of a limited-run BBC2 cop-noir series, Line of Duty:

The normal British TV depiction of police work goes something like this: the hero DI or DCI and his trusty sidekick badger witnesses and arrest the wrong person a third of the way through the program before finally running down the culprit. If Internal Affairs appears at all, it’s as some annoying git who yaps at Our Hero’s heels and makes his pursuit of truth and justice more arduous than normal, before the IA git is finally shown the door.

But what if the IA git was the good guy? What if the hero detective was a showboating philanderer? And what if the entire system of British policing was portrayed as being rife with internecine squabbling, backbiting, fear and loathing, naked ambition, self-serving cover-ups, bureaucratic make-work and a complete inability to protect and serve the public? What would that show be like?

Line of Duty (available on Hulu in the U.S.) is what it would be like.

Read the rest of the article here.