Friday, October 10, 2014
Just received the cover of GrayNet, Book 4 of the Spies Lie Series
...and I love it. Best cover of the series so far, I think. My cover designer, Jeroen Ten Berge, also does the covers for Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath among many others, Take a look. Tell me what you think:
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Kirkus Reviews issues their take on DeathByte, book 2 of the Spies Lie Series
DEATHBYTE
Book
2 of the Spies Lie Series
Kane,
DS
The
Swiftshadow Group, Inc. (354 pp.)
$14.99
paperback, $3.99 e-book
ISBN:
978-0996059138; June 12, 2014
In
the second installment of the Spies Lie thriller series, a covert agent
reunites with his allies as intelligence agencies battle over a revolutionary
tracking device.
Master
hacker William Wing discovers that someone has broken into his Hong Kong apartment
and stolen all the secrets on his computer—secrets that belong to clients such
as Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Afraid that he’ll be killed as a result
of the breach, he reaches out to his friend Jon Sommers, a former Mossad
assassin who’s now working undercover in a German bank (and having a hot-and-heavy
romance with fellow spy Ruth Cohen). The thief is revealed to be Cassandra
Sashakovich, an agent with an unnamed American intelligence agency who had been
ratted out by a mole, raped by a terrorist and is now running for her life. The
data she made off with includes plans for a tiny tracking gadget that allows
one to see through the eyes of the person who swallows it; naturally, many
people would kill to get their hands on it. Sommers brings together his few
trusted allies, including hardened soldier Avram Shimmel, to help Wing and
prevent the plans from falling into the wrong hands—but whose hands are the
wrong ones? Kane (Bloodridge, 2014) purports to be a former spy himself,
and his extensive knowledge of the ways that the world’s governments wage covert
war on one another shines through in his incredibly detailed prose. At times,
however, these details grow overwhelming and make it hard to keep track of who’s
spying on whom and why. However, readers who adore action-packed thrillers in
the vein of Robert Ludlum’s Bourne series will enjoy its many double-crossings.
However, some readers should be warned: There are graphic scenes of torture
excruciating enough to possibly make one’s stomach turn. Indeed, so many
upsetting things happen to the main characters that it may be easy for readers
to grow despondent about the state of the world by the time the story reaches
its firestorm of a conclusion.
A dizzying
spy story for readers with clear minds and steely constitutions.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
My Next Author Event, and my request for a favor from you
September 30, 2014
My next and final author event on the West Coast for this
year will be held on Saturday, October 18 from 3 p.m to 5 p.m.. at Pelican
Ranch Winery in Capitola, CA. I’ll be reading short passages from Bloodridge
and DeathByte, selling and signing paperback books, and unveiling the cover for
GrayNet, Book 4 of the Spies Lie series. If you’ve missed my previous
appearances, or would just like to reconnect, or have purchased paperbacks and
want them signed, please, come to Pelican Ranch.
GrayNet will be released in November. I’ll soon be polishing
book 5. And, I’ve already started book 6.
I’m also asking for a
favor from those of you who’ve purchased books, either paperback or ebooks: I’m
desperate for reviews. If you have read one or more of my books. Please,
please, please write and post a review at both Amazon and Goodreads. I’ll be
forever in your debt.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
The Middle East isn’t the only place where the world is sinking into conflict
You already knew that. But there is something more:
No one really knows how to force the world to become a peaceful place. In the United States, for example, we have been in a state of war over 70% of the time we’ve existed. And we have no idea how to end it.
We’ve entered wars to save our allies, to defeat our enemies, and more often than not, these wars resolved nothing. Except for feeding the weapons development corporations, that is.
The Middle East is just a good example of what we’ve failed to do, despite our good intentions. Almost every time we’ve tried to do something positive there, the results have been disastrous. As Dick Cheney stated about Iraq, “We’ll be welcomed as liberators.” And this leads to how we deceive ourselves into believing we could be the heroes: Our intelligence services are so terrible, we simply can’t rely on them to provide us with the truth. Remember “weapons of mass destruction”? Our choice is to give the intelligence services even more budget, even more power, and hope that the 1.4 million people in the USA with security clearances in the over 1,200 organizations that spy will do something different. Or, we can stop relying on them to drive our global policy decisions. Either choice is sub-optimal. There must be a better way.
It’s time our country, and every country, thought a bit about what we’re letting the world become. Is this what we want? Where should we be spending our cash? What causes should we promote? Is there a better way to keep murderers and criminals from running countries?
I have no answers. But it’s about time we started asking the questions. If we don’t things will probably get worse, and not just in the Middle East. It’s looking a lot like it did just before the start of World War I.
No one really knows how to force the world to become a peaceful place. In the United States, for example, we have been in a state of war over 70% of the time we’ve existed. And we have no idea how to end it.
We’ve entered wars to save our allies, to defeat our enemies, and more often than not, these wars resolved nothing. Except for feeding the weapons development corporations, that is.
The Middle East is just a good example of what we’ve failed to do, despite our good intentions. Almost every time we’ve tried to do something positive there, the results have been disastrous. As Dick Cheney stated about Iraq, “We’ll be welcomed as liberators.” And this leads to how we deceive ourselves into believing we could be the heroes: Our intelligence services are so terrible, we simply can’t rely on them to provide us with the truth. Remember “weapons of mass destruction”? Our choice is to give the intelligence services even more budget, even more power, and hope that the 1.4 million people in the USA with security clearances in the over 1,200 organizations that spy will do something different. Or, we can stop relying on them to drive our global policy decisions. Either choice is sub-optimal. There must be a better way.
It’s time our country, and every country, thought a bit about what we’re letting the world become. Is this what we want? Where should we be spending our cash? What causes should we promote? Is there a better way to keep murderers and criminals from running countries?
I have no answers. But it’s about time we started asking the questions. If we don’t things will probably get worse, and not just in the Middle East. It’s looking a lot like it did just before the start of World War I.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Tuesday, September 23 at 5:30: Book Signing and Reading at the Salinas Public Library
The Salinas Public Library on Lincoln Avenue would like to welcome all local readers to attend techno-thriller author DS Kane’s author reading and book signing on Tuesday, September 23 at 5:30. You may have attended one of DS Kane's fiction writing classes at the library a few years back. Now is the opportunity to see what he's produced.
Have you ever wondered how governments end up in such difficult wars and conflicts? Remember “Weapons of Mass Destruction?” What about the NSA’s monitoring of your cell phone calls? Do spies really lie? Come listen to DS Kane speak on the nature of intelligence services and how some of their most provocative endeavors often inadvertently start global conflicts.
Have you ever wondered how governments end up in such difficult wars and conflicts? Remember “Weapons of Mass Destruction?” What about the NSA’s monitoring of your cell phone calls? Do spies really lie? Come listen to DS Kane speak on the nature of intelligence services and how some of their most provocative endeavors often inadvertently start global conflicts.
Monday, August 18, 2014
Sold 50 books at book launch party!
August 16, 2014
Sold 50 books at my book launch party at Cima Collina Winery in Carmel Valley, CA today. The party went on from 3 p.m. through 5 p.m. Attendees included best-selling thriller author Barry Eisler, members of the Naval Postgraduate School faculty and administration, investigative journalists Julia Reynolds and Claudia Melendez, and my literary agent Nancy Ellis. I read short passages from Bloodridge and DeathByte. Everyone who bought a book received free wine, but then again, thriller readers tend to enjoy their wine. And, Cima Collina makes some of the the best Chards and Pinots.
If you missed this opportunity to meet me and get your book signed, come to the Salinas Public Library on Lincoln Street, Salinas, CA on September 23 at 6 p.m. through 8 p.m. for my author event there.
And, I'll be signing books at Pelican Ranch Winery in Capitola, CA on the afternoon of October 18, with free wine for the book purchasers.
Sold 50 books at my book launch party at Cima Collina Winery in Carmel Valley, CA today. The party went on from 3 p.m. through 5 p.m. Attendees included best-selling thriller author Barry Eisler, members of the Naval Postgraduate School faculty and administration, investigative journalists Julia Reynolds and Claudia Melendez, and my literary agent Nancy Ellis. I read short passages from Bloodridge and DeathByte. Everyone who bought a book received free wine, but then again, thriller readers tend to enjoy their wine. And, Cima Collina makes some of the the best Chards and Pinots.
If you missed this opportunity to meet me and get your book signed, come to the Salinas Public Library on Lincoln Street, Salinas, CA on September 23 at 6 p.m. through 8 p.m. for my author event there.
And, I'll be signing books at Pelican Ranch Winery in Capitola, CA on the afternoon of October 18, with free wine for the book purchasers.
Friday, August 8, 2014
Swiftshadow available everywhere!
August 8, 2014
Today, Swiftshadow, Book 3 of the Spies Lie Series (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MJ5KXKG) is available everywhere, in print at bookstores (where you can order it) and at Amazon. It is available in ebook form at both Nook Press (Barnes & Noble) and Amazon. See what happens when a spy's cover is blown by a mole from her own intelligence service and she becomes hunted by the very terrorists she was ordered to grift from.
Today, Swiftshadow, Book 3 of the Spies Lie Series (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MJ5KXKG) is available everywhere, in print at bookstores (where you can order it) and at Amazon. It is available in ebook form at both Nook Press (Barnes & Noble) and Amazon. See what happens when a spy's cover is blown by a mole from her own intelligence service and she becomes hunted by the very terrorists she was ordered to grift from.
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