Jack King author
Jack SpyWriter King is an author of thrillers. Writing Conspiracy, Intrigue, and Espionage; CIE Agent In Their Majesties’ – The Readers – Service ™ www.SPYWRITER.com
From the publisher: “As a former top-secret government courier, Jack King was privy to all the ins and outs of covert maneuvering on a global scale. He has turned his work experience into a series of novels that resonate with authenticity. The corridors of power, with their backstabbing, greed and corruption, form a focus point of Jack’s books.”
In my own words: “From a stint at a dreary communist factory, playing soccer for a major league club, earning a green belt in Kyok-sul (North Korean combat school), and studying for a medical and an engineering degree, to couriering top-secret information, brushing with the biggest VIPs in the Nation, playing cat-and-mouse game with thugs from military police, and being denied entry to the US, I particularly like to boast that I no longer own a suit and made the brave step into a free world – a world without TV.”
What are my novels like? You will not find in my books the literary equivalents to cinematic car chases: no empty words that serve to boost the word-count.
How does my writing stuck up against other books? Why not try one now?
For those readers who like to seek literary influences in a writer’s work, I am including below a short list of my favorite books and writers. Don’t want to read me? Read these greats:
Adventure: The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Adventure, Historical: Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Espionage, Adventure: The Monte Cristo Cover-Up, Johannes Mario Simmel
Espionage, Suspense: The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
Fantasy, Mysticism, Occult: The Fiery Angel, Valery Bryusov
Murder Mystery: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Romance, Drama: Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Romance, Psychological: The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Science Fiction: People Like Gods Trilogy, Sergei Snegov
Science Fiction” The Lunar Trilogy, Jerzy Żuławski
Social Issues, Politics, Religion: Resurrection, Leo Tolstoy
Social Issues: Germinal, Emile Zola
Stream-of-consciousness: Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar
War, Drama: Destiny of a Man, Mikhail Sholokhov
War, Anti-War: All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
War, Humor: Good Soldier Svejk, Jaroslav Hasek
War, Stupidity, Absurdity: 08/15, Hans Hellmuth Kirst
The list of my favorite authors continues, and is not limited to:
Louis Aragon, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Heinrich Böll, Yuri Bondarev, Jorge Luis Borges, Valery Brusov, Italo Calvino, Elias Canetti, Alejo Carpentier, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Cervantes, Joseph Conrad, Julio Cortazar, Anton Chekhov, Albert Camus, Carlos Dominguez, Feodor Dostoevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Ilya Ehrenburg, Anatol France, Max Frisch, Carlos Fuentes, Jean Genet, Andre Gide, Maxim Gorky, Herman Hesse, Victor Hugo, Mikhail Lermontov, Malcolm Lowry, Thomas Mann, Alerto Moravia, Robert Musil, Marcel Proust, Valentin Rasputin, Erich Maria Remarque, Romain Rolland, Ernesto Sabato, Jean-Paul Sartre, Luis Sepulveda, Mikhail Sholokhov, Leo Tolstoy, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Emile Zola… and pretty much anything from Latin American magical realism.
How does a thriller writer reconcile such reading tastes with his own writing? What better way to find out than to read my books:
My latest novel – WikiJustice – is available now
“WikiLeaks meets Jack London’s The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.”
