Asset in Black – Book Tour and Giveaway

 

A man without a country.

A spy without a master.

A rogue with one more mission.

 

Asset in Black

by Casey Prescott

From the minds of Janet & Chris Morris

Genre: Action Techno-Thriller

 

 

A man without a country.

A spy without a master.

A rogue with one more mission.

 

Cordell ‘Cory’ Hunt, a renegade free agent who has worked for both U.S. and Soviet intelligence agencies, is recalled from Morocco by U.S. agents to give one final debriefing. Within hours, he’s headed on a nightmare black op with more hanging in the balance than he’d ever expected.

 

Asset in Black is the single best espionage/spy thriller I’ve ever found. Complicated characters, women in major roles, shifting alliances and shifting loyalties, layers on layers, tremendous action sequences, a sleek plot, everything in perfect focus, a dog, and supremely satisfying ending. Thirty years after I first read it, it remains remarkably undated, and I’ll still place it at the top of my top ten list. – Amazon Review

 

 

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Hunt knew the position of the munitions depot by heart; he could draw a map of the compound in his sleep.

He waited for the leader’s signal—a wolf’s howl.

When it came, Hunt fired the rocket, knees braced against the shock and sound, head buried in the crook of his arm, then hit the dirt as it arced toward the munitions dump.

Nonetheless, the shock wave from the explosion buffeted him; the concussive roar of assorted munitions going up deafened him.

He never got back to his feet. Well before the ringing in his ears lessened, Hind helicopter gunships descended on them out of the black night, spewing cannon fire and antipersonnel explosives.

Hunt had time only to grab the man next to him, pull the mujahed down by the ankles, and bury his own head in his arms before the ground around him began to shudder with near-miss explosions and he was showered with clots of dirt and shattered rock and the occasional wet debris of a human body blown apart.

Just as he took his arms away from his head and neck to grab his rifle and shoot back at the gunships, now swooping with blinding searchlights while their gunners kept the mujahedin pinned, something exploded right beside him and the back of his head came off in a blinding shower of multicolored sparks.

 

 

Casey Prescott is a pseudonym for authors Janet Morris & Chris Morris

 

Best selling author Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 30 novels, many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. Most of her fiction work has been in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also written historical and other novels. Morris has written, contributed to, or edited several book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on nonlethal weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and national security topics.

 

Christopher Crosby Morris (born 1946) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction, as well as a lyricist, musical composer, and singer-songwriter. He is married to author Janet Morris. He is a defense policy and strategy analyst and a principal in M2 Technologies, Inc. He writes primarily as Chris Morris, but occasionally uses pseudonyms.

 

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What is something unique/quirky about you?

 

Together we breed Morgan horses. We consult with Morgan breeders to help them choose crosses to their stock to achieve a desired result.

We are also musicians; Janet plays bass guitar, Chris sings and plays guitar. We have an album on MCA records. Look for Christopher Crosby Morris on Soundcloud or N1M.com

 

Can you, for those who don’t know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author?

 

Janet wrote her first novel, High Couch of Silistra in 1975; a friend sent it to an agent who chose to represent her; she had already written the second book in the Silistra Quartet and her agent told her not to disclose that until they finalized the contract for the first one. When the publisher learned of the others, Bantam Books bought the succeeding three. When the fourth book was published, the series already had four million copies in print. Suddenly Janet was a novelist specializing in environmental, gender, historical and political subjects. In the process, Chris started as her editor and ultimately a co-writer. Since then, she and Chris have co-authored many books.

 

Who is your hero and why?

 

Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-socratic philosopher, whose Cosmic Fragments foreshadow our knowledge of reality and how to perceive it. Among his precepts is the statement that change alone is unchanging. We’ve worked Heraclitus’ fragments in here and there throughout our books.

 

Which of your novels can you imagine being made into a movie?

 

All of them. We write cinematically, our books are vivid adventures we undertake without knowing the destination.  I, the Sun, The Sacred Band, and Outpassage are particularly suited to film. The Threshold Series is a feast of opportunities for today’s special effects creators.

 

What inspired you to write Asset in Black?

 

Collecting intelligence is how a writer prepares to speak with enough authority to be convincing to the reader. Espionage and Special Operations enjoy a mythos among fiction genres because of the covert nature of gathering and then acting upon the intelligence gathered in the process. We found it fascinating enough to want to build a story where we would take our readers on a covert operation.

 

Who designed your book covers?

 

The cover of Asset in Black was created for Perseid Press by Roy Mauritsen.

 

Advice to writers?

 

As for advice to writers, here is all we know: write the story you want to read. Start at the beginning, go to the end, and stop. Seriously. From start to finish you must inhabit the construct in a manner that makes the reader choose to continue; if we as writers can’t feel what it’s like being there, our readers can’t either. Close your eyes, look at your feet where they are standing on the story’s ground; tell us what you see. Tell us what you hear. Ask at the end of each paragraph ‘what happens next?’. If you lose touch with it wait until you’re back inside it. Tell the story that comes to you, and from you, to us.

 

 

31 Comments

  1. Marcy Meyer

    The book sounds like a very interesting read. The cover art looks great.

  2. Lisa Brown

    Interesting story line, I hope to get a chance to read it.

  3. Robin Abrams

    This book sounds like a great read

  4. heather

    This sounds like a real page turner and one I would love to read this spring season.

  5. Julie Marsigliano

    I look forward to reading.

  6. Piroska

    The book sounds very intriguing. Love the cover. Very effective.

    • Hi Piroska – We’re sure you won’t be disappointed. We love the cover too. It was created by Roy Mauritsen our in house graphic artist. Thanks for checking in. :)

  7. Barbara Montag

    What an exciting read!
    Sure to keep every one’s attention.
    Thank you for sharing it.

  8. Carol G

    Interesting to read a note from someone who reread it after 30 years and still liked it!

    • Hi Carol – We hope you’ll write a review like that one but I guess we’ll have to wait, eh? :)

  9. wendy hutton

    this sounds like a great book to read

  10. Heather Swanson

    Looks very exciting Do you write in a daily journal?

  11. Sherry

    I love the cover and the excerpt and I look forward to reading this book.

  12. Jamie Martin

    Do you have any advice for new writers?

  13. Jeanna Massman

    This is an exciting genre. The characters add to the book’s appeal!

  14. Soha Molina

    What message or theme do you want readers to take away from this book?

  15. Ann Fantom

    This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.

  16. Jennifer R

    The Action Techno-Thriller sounds exciting to read.

  17. Cynthia C

    Interesting genre – new to me.

  18. Stephanie Liske

    I like the book details.

  19. Virginia Hafer

    Sounds like a thrilling book with a lot of twists and turns.

  20. Thomas Gibson

    I wish you the very best with your tour.

  21. beth shepherd

    This looks like a great read

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