Spies, Lies and Private Eyes

Nathaniel Rich is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a frequent contributor to The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New York Review of Books. A 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, he teaches at Tulane University and lives in New Orleans. www.nathanielrich.com Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingco...

Bronx-born and raised, Jason Allison spent twenty years with the NYPD, mostly as a homicide detective. His debut novel, THE KILLING YARDS, will be published by Crooked Lane Books in the fall of 2026. His award-winning fiction has been featured in Fighting Words: Bruisers, Brawlers, and Bad Intentions, Rock and a Hard Place, and New England’s Best Crime Stories. Jason and his wife live in Massachus...

Kevin Wade’s credits include the stage plays Key Exchange, Mr. & Mrs., and Cruise Control, and the screenplays for Working Girl, True Colors, Mr. Baseball, Junior, Meet Joe Black, and Maid in Manhattan. For television, he led the CBS drama Blue Bloods as the writer, showrunner, executive producer, and back-seat driver over its fourteen-year run. His first novel, Johnny Careless, was published...

Arvind Ethan David has written seven graphic novels, including most recently his adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business (Pantheon, May 2025) and the Bram Stoker Award–nominated Darkness Visible with Mike Carey. He has also written multiple hit audio originals, including the science fiction anthology series Earworms, The Crimes of Dorian Gray, and the nonfiction audiobook Douglas A...

Johnny Shaw was born and raised on the Calexico/Mexicali border, the setting for his award-winning Jimmy Veeder Fiasco series, which includes the novels DOVE SEASON, PLASTER CITY, and IMPERIAL VALLEY. He is also the author of the Anthony Award-winning adventure novel BIG MARIA, the heist novel THE UPPER HAND, and the crime extravaganza FLOODGATE. Visit his website:  www.johnnyshawauthor.com/ Spies...

Julian Fisher is the author of Think Like A Spy: Master the Nine Secret Skills of Influence and Leadership. A former British official operating overseas, Julian is a specialist in human intelligence (HUMINT). He is a keynote speaker, trainer and consultant. Julian also acts as technical advisor for productions in the espionage genre, including Apple TV+’s smash-hit Slow Horses. He was the lead-tra...

David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation, is the author of Winter Counts, which won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel. A professor of English and Native American and Indigenous Studies at Stony Brook University, he lives in New York and Colorado with his famil...

Charles Cumming is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of thirteen novels, including A Spy by Nature, Typhoon, The Trinity Six, the Thomas Kell trilogy, and the BOX 88 series. He is also the screenwriter of the Gerard Butler action movie Plane. Visit his website  charlescumming.co.uk/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authors...

Neal Lipschutz, a long-time journalist, was formerly a deputy editor-in-chief at The Wall Street Journal. He also previously served as WSJ's ethics and standards editor. He also at one time was the top editor at Dow Jones Newswires. His short fiction has appeared in a number of publications. More about Neal on his website at  neallipschutz.com . Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by A...

Cate Holahan is a USA Today Bestselling thriller/suspense author and screenwriter. She has seven standalone novels and is co-author of the  #1  Audible bestselling series Young Rich Widows, its sequels Desperate Deadly Widows and Wild Wicked Widows, and its planned fourth installment. Her eighth solo book, Last Looks, will be published by Thomas & Mercer in October of 2026. Visit her website: ...

Stella Sands is the author of Wordhunter, an Amazon Editor's Best Books of 2024, and Codebreakers, as well as a bestselling author of six true-crime books: Baby-Faced Butchers , The Dating Game Killer , Behind the Mask , Murder at Yale , Wealthy Men Only , and The Good Son ; a children’s book, Odyssea , and many educational books. She served as the editor-in-chief of the award-winning magazine...

Charles Salzberg is a former journalist whose work has appeared in articles in Esquire, The New York Times, Redbook, GQ, and Travel + Leisure. His first novel, Swann’s Last Song, was nominated for a Shamus Award as was Second Story Man, winner of the Beverly Hills Book Award, and Canary in the Coal Mine. Visit his website  www.charlessalzberg.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Aut...

Tori Eldridge is the author of Kaua‘i Storm, the Lily Wong mysteries, Dance Among the Flames, and numerous short stories. Born in Honolulu—of Hawaiian, Chinese, and Norwegian descent—Tori graduated from Punahou School with classmate Barack Obama before performing as an actress, singer, and dancer on Broadway, television, and film, and earning a fifth-degree black belt in To-Shin Do ninja martial a...

Matthew Lavoie is a policy expert and political operative for some of Washington’s most influential power brokers. He has spent his career evaluating the how and why of American political and cultural movements and observing some of the biggest shifts in American and geopolitical history. Visit his website at  matthewlavoie.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Glo...

Rob Hart is the author of The Medusa Protocol, Assassins Anonymous, The Paradox Hotel, The Warehouse, and the Ash McKenna crime series, and the co-author of Scott Free with James Patterson. He’s worked as a book publisher, a reporter, a political communications director, and a commissioner for the city of New York. Hart lives in Jersey City. Visit his website at  robwhart.com/ Spies, Lies and Priv...

Danielle Postel-Vinay is the French alter ego of the New York Times bestselling author Danielle Trussoni, whose fiction has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Prix Bête Noir des Libraires 2025 and has been translated into over thirty languages. She is married to a Frenchman and spends part of the year in Paris with her family. Visit her website at:  danielletrussoni.com/ Spies, Lies and...

Bill Rapp is a historian, former member of the CIA and served as an advisor to several key decision makers in Washington, D.C. His latest book, A TURKISH TRIANGLE is available from Coffeetown Press. Please visit his website at www.billrappsbooks.com. Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram   #authorinterview   #writingcommunity   #...

Vincent Coppola is the author of five nonfiction books. A former Newsweek reporter, Coppola has written feature stories for Talk, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Men's Journal, Worth, and Atlanta magazines. Coppola's story of his mother's battle against cancer was awarded the William Allen White Gold Medal by the University of Kansas. He is a 1977 honors graduate of the Columbia University Gra...

Stig Abell is a crime fiction writer who also presents the breakfast show on Times Radio, a station he helped to launch in 2020. Before that he was a regular presenter on Radio 4’s Front Row and was the editor and publisher of the Times Literary Supplement. He lives in London with his wife and family. A TWIST IN THE RIVER is the latest novel in his Jake Jackson series. Spies, Lies and Private Eyes...

Avery Bishop is the pseudonym for a USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award-winning author of over a dozen novels, including GIRL GONE MAD, ONE YEAR GONE, DEAR SERAPHINA, and the recent Audible Original THE CHATEAU. Visit their website  www.averybishopbooks.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram   #authorinterview   #wri...

Miranda Armstadt is a third-generation journalist whose grandfather created the longest-running news program on television. Her mother wrote for the Washington Post. Miranda has also performed professionally as a singer and actress. Her new novel DEGREES OF INTELLIGENCE, won the 2025 Gold Medal Award for Historical Fiction from Military Writers Society of America. Visit her website:  miranda-armst...

M.E. Proctor was born in Brussels and lives in Texas. She's the author of the Declan Shaw PI series, "Love You Till Tuesday" and "Catch Me on a Blue Day", and the short story collections "Family and Other Ailments" and "A Book to Live By". She’s the co-author of the retro-noir novellas "Bop City Swing" and "Kansas City Breakdown" (upc...

Jason Starr is the international bestselling author of many psychological thrillers, including Vanessa's Men, Too Far, Panic Attack, Fantasies, and The Manhattan Trilogy. He also writes original graphic novels, such as the thriller Casual Fling, and comics for Marvel and DC. He lives in New York City. Visit his website at  jasonstarr.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors...

James Grady (b. 1949) is the author of screenplays, articles, and more than a dozen critically acclaimed thrillers. In 1973, after years of acquiring rejection slips for short stories and poems, Grady sold his first novel: Six Days of the Condor, a sensational bestseller which was eventually adapted into a film starring Robert Redford. Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the...

Elizabeth Rose Quinn is a novelist and screenwriter. She graduated with a BA in English from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy. Her novel Follow Me was optioned by Amazon MGM Studios and is currently in production as a feature film. Visit her website:  www.elizabethrosequinn.com . Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network...