Suit Up! With Terrance Layhew

Ever since his youth, Troy Evans planned to follow in his father's footsteps and serve as an FBI special agent. A chance encounter and discovery of a mysterious document endangered not only the town of Drexel, Idaho, but the entire nation. Suit Up! With Eric P. Bishop and Drexel. The latest of the Omega Group Series is a prequel about how a change in Troy Evan's life set him on the path to the Ome...

Roland Hulme rejoins the Podcast to chat about writing, Men's Adventure Fiction, character dynamics and much more! Order my crime adventure, Diamonds in Denver  https://a.co/d/aHi7p9z Order my 1920's Aviator novella, Unwanted Passenger   https://a.co/d/5FVQJWU Order my pulp treasure hunt novel, One Man's Treasure  https://a.co/d/i19YMn7 Follow Roland https://www.instagram.com/rolandhulme/?hl=en ht...

SOME MONSTERS ARE REAL—AND SOME SECRETS ARE DEADLY. After a dragon-like attack, a paleontologist's team ventures deep into an island jungle—only to discover the true nightmare has just begun. Suit Up! With J.B. Manas, author of fiction and non-fiction. We'll be talking about cinematic writing, Dragon Island, James Bond and much more! Order Dragon Island https://a.co/d/9vYjgMm Order my crime advent...

2015 to 2022, Anthony Horowitz published three James Bond novels set within the Fleming timeline. With a little distance from their initial release, what do two Bond fans think of this? Suit Up! With Chris from The Bond Report, a fan of Horowitz and a fantastic pundant of the James Bond world. Tune in for a fantastic conversation. Order my crime adventure, Diamonds in Denver  https://a.co/d/aHi7p9...

New Year, new me. Order my crime adventure, Diamonds in Denver  https://a.co/d/aHi7p9z Order my 1920's Aviator novella, Unwanted Passenger   https://a.co/d/5FVQJWU Order my pulp treasure hunt novel, One Man's Treasure  https://a.co/d/i19YMn7 Get the show ad free for $1.00/month - https://buymeacoffee.com/suitup Follow The Show! https://terrancelayhew.com/suitup/ https://www.instagram.com/suitup.au...

Scott Hebert joins for our annual conversation about our top books of the year! Check out interviews with the authors of Terrance's top picks: https://terrancelayhew.com/with-raymond-benson-and-the-hook-and-the-eye/ https://terrancelayhew.com/with-gene-koon-and-another-try/ https://terrancelayhew.com/with-andrew-ludington-and-splinter-effect/ https://terrancelayhew.com/with-scott-mccrea-and-target...

Lethal Weapon (1987) Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers. Happy Shane-Mass! We are celebrating Christmas at Suit Up! and Gregg Podolski is joining the show to discuss the first of the epic Shane Black Christmas films Lethal Weapon (1987). Tune into our conversation about the Christmas theme, the actors, the sc...

Flinch publishes novels and short story anthologies that explore just about every genre imaginable: mystery, science fiction, western, horror, sword and sorcery, occult detective and more. The heroes and villains are bigger than life, the stakes are high, and the next perilous cliffhanger is always just a few pages away. Suit Up! With Flinch books and their co-founders, Jim Beard and John C. Bruen...

"High atop Yellow Rock Mountain, notorious gunfighter Mort Totten sits like a vulture king, with a $25,000 bounty on his head. Nineteen men have tried their luck. Nineteen men never came back alive." Jeff Pintabona joins the show to talk his latest book The Killers From Yellow Rock along with univeral monsters, writing westerns, history and much more! Pick Up Jeff's Books The Killers From Yellow R...

Capping off Noir November, Jeff Circle from the Writer's Dossier joins the show to talk about the first(?) film noir: The Maltese Falcon (1941). We'll talk femme fatals, noir tropes, John Huston and much more! Pick up Myopic Duplicity -  https://a.co/d/8b85vRp Order my crime adventure, Diamonds in Denver  https://a.co/d/aHi7p9z Order my 1920's Aviator novella, Unwanted Passenger   https://a.co/d/5...

"For as long as Henry Carver can remember, the ship haunted his dreams—a splintered hull leaning on a sunlit sandbar, its broken mast stabbing the sky like a warning. No matter where he was or what he did, sleep always took him back there." London Baker joins the Podcast to talk about his novella, Pull of the Tide . We'll also discuss mastering attenion in a digital world, the value of travel, bui...

In the heart of Africa, CIA Special Agent Alexandra Martel's safari with her father spirals into a deadly game of betrayal when he is kidnapped by rebels. Suddenly, her peaceful Serengeti vacation transforms into a desperate race against time. Suit Up! With Steve Urszenyi, author of the Alex Martel series. On this episode, we'll be talking about creating Alexandra Martel, the evolution of characte...

CIA Paramilitary Officer Thomas Caine is a man with countless enemies, but few friends. So when an ally from his past is brutally attacked, Caine returns to Japan to settle the score. There, his mission takes a deadly turn when he crosses paths with Byakko, the White Tiger - a merciless Yakuza gangster whose hypnotic gaze strikes fear into the hearts of his victims. Suit Up! With Andrew Warren, au...

"After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights." Gene Koon returns to the show to chat The Great Waldo Pepper (1975). We'll talk aviation stunts, history, storytelling, William Goldman and much more! Gene's Book List Fighting the Flying Circus: The Greatest True Air Adventur...

The inertia seems too great to overcome. I have experienced that, you have experienced that. It's a universal struggle which defeats you before you have even started. The enemy of action is the same enemy of creativity. The resistance. In his seminal work of creativity, The War of Art, Steven Pressfield identifies the resistance as the universal force to keep things as they are. It sabotages every...

Captain Hunt must travel from Africa to the French Alps, and from there to Florence and a remote Benedictine abbey, while fighting against the most formidable opponent he has yet encountered. Finally, the captain seems to have found his archenemy! Suit Up! With Gabriel Rabanales. He is a lawyer, author, and international Bond fan. On today's episode we'll be talking about the latest of his Captain...

A Universal Monster classic! Happy Halloween! Enjoy this free floating conversation between Terrance and Scott Hebert about The Creature From the Black Lagoon . Order my crime adventure, Diamonds in Denver  https://a.co/d/aHi7p9z Order my 1920's Aviator novella, Unwanted Passenger   https://a.co/d/5FVQJWU Order my pulp treasure hunt novel, One Man's Treasure  https://a.co/d/i19YMn7 Get the show ad...

The stage to Lobo has been robbed, a passenger has been killed. But it's not the first time. In fact, three other stagecoach robberies have taken place at this exact spot. Lobo has law, if you could call it that. An old constable with a game leg and bad shoulder has vowed he's going to bring in the guilty. So far he's been all hat and no cows. Jubal Stone is on his way. Things are about to get rea...

Anakin and Mato had a future worth fighting for. Raised by a fierce and loving mother, they vowed never to become like their violent, gangbanging father. But on graduation night, tragedy strikes—and the brothers make a split-second decision that changes the course of their lives forever. Suit Up! With TG Brown, award winning author of the Warren Lawson Series . He joins the show to discuss fitness...

Giacomo Ferrentino and The French Foreign Legion are on a top secret mission well off their beaten path. A man with a heart of fire and an incorruptible blade faces down enemy after enemy to bring a city back from despotism and terror. Suit Up! With Nathanael Hummel as we discuss his latest book, In the Heart of Alexandria . We'll discuss swashbuckling, the French Foreign Legion, adventure fiction...

Hired to transport the impossibly beautiful and impossibly secretive Dora from New York to Texas, Felix Leiter is thrust into a non-stop adventure, where danger and deceit lie in wait around every bend in the road. Raymond Benson is BACK! We'll be discussing his latest book The Hook and the Eye , returning to the Bond world, writing Felix Leiter, noir fiction and much more! Pick up a copy of The H...

Ryan Permison makes his Suit Up! Debut to talk about Dick Tracy (1990). This auteur passion project is crazy. Is it crazy good or merely mad? Tune into the episode to hear our thoughts on the film, production, character and more! Order my pulp treasure hunt novel,  One Man's Treasure  https://a.co/d/i19YMn7 Order my 1920's Aviator novella,  Unwanted Passenger   https://a.co/d/5FVQJWU Join my membe...

In Mamaroneck, New York, Brian Stratton's soul burns amid his lukewarm suburban surroundings. Seeing no escape, he rebels, finding catharsis for his sorrow in the local punk scene. After he sneaks backstage at his favorite band's first concert in the US, he finds the room bloody and Keisuke Fuma-celebrity by day, ninja for the yakuza by night-standing over the dead bodies. Jeff Nelson joins the sh...

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Slam evil! John Borges and Matt Pagourgis from American Pulps return to Suit Up! To talk about  The Phantom starring Billy Zane. We'll discuss The Phantom's origins, the films, 90's Hollywood, reinterpreting the character and much more! Order my pulp treasure hunt novel,  One Man's Treasure  https://a.co/d/i19YMn7 Order my 1920's Aviator novella,  Unwanted Passenger   https://a.co/d/5FVQJWU Join m...