Current Projects

As you know, I have a new novel, titled NIGHT FALL, published by Warner Books on November 22, 2004.

It’s been awhile since my last novel, UP COUNTRY, which was published in January 2002. I would have gotten NIGHT FALL finished sooner, but my dog ate the manuscript.

A few words about NIGHT FALL: The story features John Corey, NYPD, who was also the main character in PLUM ISLAND and THE LION’S GAME. The female protagonist is Kate Mayfield, FBI, who first appeared in THE LION’S GAME.

NIGHT FALL is based on a true incident: the crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, New York on July 17, 1996. All 230 passengers and crew perished. The official cause of the crash was and remains a mechanical failure, which caused the center fuel tank to explode in flight.

There were, however, over two hundred eyewitnesses to the crash who swore they saw a streak of light – perhaps a missile – heading toward the aircraft right before it exploded.

Five years after the crash, John Corey and his wife Kate Mayfield decide to get to the truth.

The book opens with a flashback to the night of July 17, 1996 – a couple are videotaping themselves having sex on the beach. As the camera rolls, a huge explosion lights up the sky. Have they inadvertently videotaped the explosion of TWA 800?

For those of you who don’t want to read a steamy sex scene, you can go directly to Chapter Two. It’s five yeas later to the day, and John Corey and Kate Mayfield are driving out to the beach to attend a memorial service for the victims of the crash.

Many people who have read an advance reading copy of NIGHT FALL – reviewers, movie people, bookstore owners, people in the publishing and publicity industries – have said this is my best book ever. And who am I to argue?

I am currently working on a novel, untitled, about an Islamic plot to detonate an atomic device in a major American city.

The main protagonist in this story is a new character, not yet named, who is a CIA agent. The CIA has gotten some bad raps over the last few decades, in the media, movies, and in fiction, so I thought it was time to create a CIA hero of the type we used to read about in the early years of the Cold War. This guy is going to be a little like James Bond of British M-16 – suave, cool, and sophisticated with a dry sense of humor.

Just saw Nelson Demille on Television discussing his new book, very intelligent, and he has a point- While the characters and story of his story are Fictitious , He personally truly believes that flight 800 was a terror attack, and I do remember seeing something on television when it happened about witnesses seeing a missile, so I really am surprised to see it was officially attributed to a fuel tank. Nelson Demille is Brilliant, so it is Plausible. I'm eager to hear what you all think.

Thats because TWA 800 WAS taken out by a missle, covered up by Clinton's NSA and NTSB.
The worst part of all, it was covered up so he could get re-elected.
Now, here is where it gets sticky.
The country, at that time, was in a high state of alert, because of the Atlanta games.
There are three theories behind this shoot-down.
1.It was terrorists firing shoulder launched missles from a boat off the coast of Long Island. The aircraft was at 13,000 feet, well within range of a shoulder fired missle.
2. It was a Navy missle fired at what they believed was another aircraft, inbound, which they had been advised, had been hijacked and was going to be crashed somewhere.
3.The Navy attempted an intercept of the first missle, with one of our anti-missle missles, and missed. The heat signature of the aircraft being greater than the first missle, the anti-missle missle went for the larger target.
Our government initially denied, denied, denied, that there were any Naval vessels anywhere near Long Island on the night of 17 July 1996, but records and witnesses later proved that, in fact, the Navy was running a major surface excercise in that area, that night.
Jack Cashill has done an excellent job of bringing all these facts and witnesses together, and has a book, and DVD,(entitled "Mega-Fix"), that lays it out perfectly. I hope you used some of his information in writing your book. Your book appears to have a resemblance to the couple who were arresetd for trying to investigate the shoot-down.

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