A new book — and a favor to ask

I’ve been deliberately quiet about this one.

For the past year I’ve been writing a novel that sits alongside the Eddie Grant books but tells a different story — one I’ve wanted to tell for a while, about a woman who is, in some ways, more capable than Eddie and less conflicted about it. Her name is Sandrine Brennan. She goes by Sandi. She’s a retired Army lieutenant colonel who turned down a promotion to full colonel to come to Paris and run a well-funded new security firm with deep ties to the CIA — and, as it turns out, to persuade Eddie Grant to join her.

The book is called Paris Reckoning. It’s finished, formatted, and will be published on July 1.

If you’ve read any of the Eddie Grant novels, you’ll recognize the Paris in this book — the same streets, the same light, some of the same faces. But Sandi sees the city differently than Eddie does, and the story she walks into is darker and more contemporary: a conspiracy that connects the synthetic opioid networks flooding Europe to a corruption operation reaching into the highest levels of West African governments, with Russia’s Wagner Group somewhere in the background.

Here’s the favor.

I’m looking for readers who will read an advance copy before July 1 and post an honest review on Amazon and Goodreads on launch day or soon thereafter. Not a glowing review — an honest one. Early reviews are the single most important factor in whether a new book finds its readers, and I’d rather have them come from people who know my work than from strangers.

If you’re willing to do that, click the link below. BookFunnel will deliver the file in whatever format works for your device — Kindle, epub, PDF. It takes about thirty seconds.

Paris Reckoning is the first book in what I intend to be a series. Sandi Brennan is going to keep me busy for a while. I hope she keeps you busy for a weekend.

— John