Steve Berryย is theย New York Timesย and #1 internationally bestselling author of eighteen Cotton Malone novels, five stand-alone thrillers, andย several works of short fiction. He has more than twenty-six million books in print, translated into forty-one languages. With his wife, Elizabeth, he is the founder of History Matters, an organization dedicated to historical preservation. He serves as an emeritus member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board and was a founding member of International Thriller Writers, formerly serving as its coโpresident.
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Grant Blackwood is theย New York Timesย bestselling author of the Briggs Tanner series, (The End of Enemies,ย The Wall of Night, andย An Echo of War); the co-author of the Fargo Adventure Series (Spartan Gold,ย Lost Empire, andย The Kingdom) with Clive Cussler; co-author ofย The Kill Switchย with James Rollins; and co-author ofย the #1ย New York Timesย bestseller,ย Dead or Alive, with Tom Clancy. ย A U. S. Navy veteran, Grant spent three years aboard a guided missile frigate as an Operations Specialist and a Pilot Rescue Swimmer. Grant lives in Colorado, where he is working on his own standalone series starring a new hero.
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