Friday, July 21, 2017

SPEED THE DAWN BY PHIL DONLAY

Herewith is the press release for Phil Donlay's newest thriller!




 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
OCEANVIEW PUBLISHING WILL RELEASE 
SPEED THE DAWN BY PHILIP DONLAY 
IN HARDCOVER ON MARCH 6, 2018 
Contact: David Abolafia, Director of Publicity and Marketing, Oceanview Publishing 
Phone: 941-387-8500 
Email: davida@oceanviewpub.com 
Donlay climbs to a new height of terror in his 8th Donovan Nash thriller 
Hundreds of white-hot meteor fragments plunge toward Earth near Monterey Bay, California. Huge fires ignite the tinder-dry landscape and, as the sun sets, the power grid collapses and the fires grow, illuminating a nightmare created in hell itself. Donovan Nash realizes he is trapped. 
Injured and growing desperate, his options dwindling, Donovan fights to keep himself and a small band of survivors alive until dawn, when they can make one last attempt to escape the inferno. 
Meanwhile, Donovan’s wife, Dr. Lauren McKenna, working with the Pentagon as well as the Forest Service, envisions a bold approach to stop the fire from spreading all the way to the Bay Area and the seven million residents living there. She’s terrified that, if not executed perfectly, her plan could cause the death of thousands of people—including Donovan. 
Praise for Philip Donlay and the Donovan Nash series: 
“Authors like Philip Donlay, who write the pure thrillers, have capabilities and strength I can only envy. Great pacing and twists. Bravo!” 
—William Kent Krueger, Edgar Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of Manitou Canyon 
“[Deadly Echoes] is a heart-thumping ride that steams along, bringing our flawed world into pristine focus. Lots of mischief and mayhem, the characters fraught with danger, the plot hitting all the right notes.” 
—Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author of The Lost Order 
“Donovan Nash is back—and is he ever. In Aftershock… tense action, crisp dialog, and cool high-tech toys drive the story. Oh, and there’s even an erupting volcano. A great read.” 
—D. P. Lyle, award-winning author of Deep Six 
“Fans of Michael Crichton will not want to miss Deadly Echoes. Well researched and supremely entertaining, Philip Donlay has knocked this one out of the park!” 
—Ward Larsen, USA Today best-selling author of Passenger 19 
“In [Aftershock], Donlay checks all the boxes of the genre: strong male lead (with an unlimited bank account, no less), capable friends with appropriate skills, and a lightning-fast pace.” 
—Publishers Weekly 
ISBN: 978-1-60809-230-7 
Hardcover, Thriller, $26.95 
Available in all Ebook formats 
Distributed by Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Bookazine 
About the Author, Philip Donlay 
Philip Donlay learned to fly at age seventeen and was first published at eighteen. In the aviation world, success came quickly and he’s been flying jets since he was twenty years old. Whether flying a Saudi sheik, nighttime freight, or executives of a Fortune 500 company, Donlay has logged over six million miles while spanning the globe. He is an avid fly fisherman and divides his time between Montana and the Pacific Northwest. 
Oceanview Publishing is an independent book publisher of mystery, suspense & thrillers. Oceanview is headquartered in Florida, and is a proud member of the International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America. For information on any of our titles or authors, please contact David Abolafia, PR Director, at davida@oceanviewpub.com or 941-387-8500. Twitter: @OceanviewPub 

www.OceanviewPub.com

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Enter the Goodreads Giveaway for THE MEMORY AGENT by Matt Delaney!

Goodreads is giving away 100 copies of THE MEMORY AGENT in Amazon Kindle format. Enter here before July 17, 2017!


                                                                     

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Great article about James Gunn exploring new ways of working

You can read the full article here.

Check out his latest in his space opera trilogy, TRANSFORMATION!

Amazing Bookreporter Review for Steve Holgate's TANGIER!

Holgate weaves an exquisite tapestry of espionage, June 17, 2017


                                       



This review is from: Tangier (Paperback)
“The real Casablanca is nothing like the movie. But Tangier is. You can get into a lot of trouble very quickly in Tangier.” Like 1940s Casablanca, “Tangier was an easier city to get into than it was to leave.”

Stephen Holgate weaves an exquisite tapestry of wartime espionage, intrigue, and mystery, in his astounding debut novel. The only things missing are Bogart romancing Bergman, and Dooley Wilson (“Sam”) singing 'As Time Goes By'. With a novel-length flashback to 1940s French-occupied Morocco, Tangier is the real Casablanca.

In a parallel plot in 1995, Christopher Chaffee is forced out of his D.C. bureaucratic position, for padding expense accounts. His France-born mother receives a letter dated 1940 (the year Chris was born) from her son’s father, Rene Laurent, who presumably died in a Vichy prison. Now Chaffee is in Tangier, tracing that letter to its origin. At passport control, Chaffee explains his predicament: “I was born Christopher Laurent. My mother remarried and I took my stepfather’s name. The man I am looking for is my father.”

Ousted from France in 1940, Rene Laurent was “a diplomat without a country.” He boards, along with other exiled Europeans, in the Great Expectations-like château owned by a femme fatale: “Yet an air of weary elegance clung to the decaying villa.”

Returning to the present (1995), Chaffee meets various characters and “vagaries of fortune.” American piano man and ex-pat Pete Draper drags Chaffee to a gig at La Crepuscule in a neighboring town, where “[a]n ancient woman sat at a table near the end of the bar, absently waving an ebony cigarette holder.” Madame Dubois was the “[l]ast bit of jetsam left from the high tide of French colonialism.” Madame may have heard of someone who knows someone who may have known Rene Laurent.

Picking up pieces of a discarded life, Chaffee constructs a composite of who was his father, told by a masterful author. This arduous search takes Chaffee on an unexpected expedition of self-awareness. Chaffee “had been looking for his father, and only now did he realize he had finally found himself.”

The author is a native Oregonian living in Portland. Holgate served as a diplomat at the American Embassy in Morocco. He has published several short stories, freelance articles, and produced a single-person play. Tangier is one of the most satisfying debut novels I’ve enjoyed in decades.

Reviewed by L. Dean Murphy for Bookreporter