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RED DECEPTION News!
Wednesday, June 16th, 2021
Fast-Paced Thriller “Red Deception” Paints Chilling Portrait of Our Times
What would happen if all the major bridges in the U.S. were bombed, all commerce came to a dead stop, and the nation’s natural resources, such as our water supply, were cut off?
The importance of protecting America’s critical infrastructure has rarely been depicted so powerfully as in Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman’s new fast-paced thriller, “Red Deception,” the follow-up to 2019’s Red Hotel.” And it’s a timely read, considering President Biden’s current emphasis on improving the nation’s infrastructure.
Fuller and Grossman’s novel posits a scenario that could potentially destroy much of it.
Blending career insight with first-hand knowledge of global politics, Fuller, a global executive and crisis management expert, and Grossman, a TV producer and author, have once again drawn a chilling portrait of the fragile fault lines in Europe and the players poised to seize power.
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Red Deception
“The authors keep the multiple plot lines moving swiftly ahead with rapid scene shifts, and the behind-the-scenes look at the high-end international hotel world lends authenticity.” – Publishers Weekly
Intelligence experts and thriller authors concur: Red Deception is “A page-turner by authors who might as well sit on the National Security Council.”
When terrorists bomb bridges across the country and threaten the Hoover Dam, the vulnerability of America’s infrastructure becomes a matter of national security. But Dan Reilly, a former Army intelligence officer, predicted the attacks in a secret State Department report written years earlier—a virtual blueprint for disaster, somehow leaked and now in the hands of foreign operatives.
With Washington distracted by domestic crises, Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov sends troops to the borders of Ukraine and Latvia, ready to reclaim what he feels is Russia’s rightful territory. Tensions in Europe threaten to boil over as a besieged American president balances multiple crises that threaten to upend the geopolitical order. With the US at the mercy of an egomaniacal leader, and reporters and covert agents on his tail, Reilly may be the one man who can connect the dots before an even bigger catastrophe unfolds. Red Deception is the second book in the Red Hotel series.
About: Gary Grossman, Ed Fuller
Hardcover: $26.95 (ISBN: 9780825309465)
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RED HOTEL News!
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
Wide Range Of Reading Ideas To Get In Gear For The Holidays
“Red Hotel” by Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman (Beaufort Books)
“Red Hotel” is an incredibly timely globe-trotting thriller that is fiction on the edge of reality. A Tokyo hotel is bombed and dozens are killed and injured, so why is one man walking away from the massacre with a smile on his face? Former Army intelligence officer Dan Reilly, now international hotel executive, is on the case.
As Reilly utilizes all the contacts he can to get to the bottom of the disaster, he learns he isn’t just looking for one person but an entire organization that he never suspected. This discovery leads him to more calculated acts of terror around the globe and a much more internationally connected web of corruption than he was prepared for.
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RED HOTEL News!
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
RED Hotel featured on Eagle & Times “Wide Range Of Reading Ideas To Get In Gear For The Holidays”
“Red Hotel” is an incredibly timely globe-trotting thriller that is fiction on the edge of reality. A Tokyo hotel is bombed and dozens are killed and injured, so why is one man walking away from the massacre with a smile on his face? Former Army intelligence officer Dan Reilly, now international hotel executive, is on the case.
As Reilly utilizes all the contacts he can to get to the bottom of the disaster, he learns he isn’t just looking for one person but an entire organization that he never suspected. This discovery leads him to more calculated acts of terror around the globe and a much more internationally connected web of corruption than he was prepared for. Purchase at https://amzn.to/2nYUh3m.
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RED HOTEL News!
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
RED HOTEL News!
Wednesday, June 26th, 2019
Midwest Book Review: Wisconsin Bookwatch, A Review
Synopsis: When a bomb rips the facade off the Kensington Hotel in Tokyo, dozens are killed and injured while one man walks calmly away from the wreckage, a coy smile playing on his lips.
Former Army intelligence officer Dan Reilly, now an international hotel executive with high level access to the CIA, makes it his mission to track him down. He begins a jet-setting search for answers as the clock ticks down to a climactic event that threatens NATO and the very security of member nations.
Reilly begins mining old contacts and resources in an effort to delve deeper into the motive behind these attacks, and fast. Through his connections he learns that the Tokyo bomber is not acting alone. But the organization behind the perpetrator is not who they expect.
Facilitated by the official government from a fearsome global superpower, the implications and reasons for these attacks are well beyond anything Reilly or his sources in the CIA and State Department could have imagined, and point not to random acts of terror, but calculated acts of war. RED Hotel is an incredibly timely globe-trotting thriller that’s fiction on the edge of reality.
Critique: In an inherently riveting plot that could well be ripped from tomorrow’s newspaper headlines, “RED Hotel” showcases the effective collaboration between co-authors Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller.
While especially and unreservedly recommended for community library Contemporary General Fiction collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that “RED Hotel” is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $11.49) and as a complete and unabridged audio book (Brilliance Audio, 9781978691605, $14.99, CD)
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RED HOTEL News!
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
Interview: “RED Hotel: A thriller within a hotel setting that has suspense and international intrigue”
“RED Hotel by Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller brings to life, in a thrilling novel, the dangers of soft targets. Using his past experiences as an overseer of Marriott International’s Global Security Strategy, and now President of the Irvine, California-based Laguna Strategic Advisors, a global consortium that provides business consulting services to corporations and governments, Fuller is able to help create a realistic plot with political thriller writer Grossman.
“The novel is a thriller within a hotel setting that has suspense and international intrigue. The plot involves a world adventure that is both realistic and believable, given the experiences of one of the authors, Ed Fuller. As the conflict intensifies readers will be on the edge of their seats.”
Elise Cooper: Did your experiences help to write this thriller?
Ed Fuller: I was President of the Marriott International Group for twenty-two years. I had to deal with a series of challenges from kidnappings, evacuations, dealing with drug cartels, and foreign governments. I knew it was necessary to build a crisis management organization.
EC: Why a novel?
EF: While I was still working with Marriott, I wrote a book, You Can’t Lead with your Feet on the Desk. It was a business book that reflected my experiences and philosophies. One of my friends in public relations suggested I make it into a movie. I sought the advice of another friend, Bruce Feirstein, who sat on a board with me and wrote three James Bond screenplays. He suggested I write a novel. Since I had trouble with pulling the characters together, I sought out a co-writer. I was impressed with Gary Grossman, a political thriller writer. So, the way it works is I contribute stories and strategy and Gary applies the glue, creativity, and through-line that binds our stories, characters.
EC: Gary, how did you find out about this project?
Gary Grossman: I bumped into a neighbor, Bruce Feirstein, who told me he knows of someone that wants to collaborate on a novel. I met with Ed and realized he was as much in the anti-terrorism business as the hotel business. I think it came down to a James Bond connection that put us together. I saw Ed as the real deal that has made the hotel experience safer for people. He had information that could protect guests around the globe.
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RED Hotel News!
Friday, May 10th, 2019
Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman talk about “RED HOTEL”
Q. Your book starts off with a bang. Literally, when the Kensington Royal Hotel in Tokyo is bombed. As in real life, hotels are now ideal targets for terrorists. Why?
Ed Fuller: Hotels are called “soft targets” when compared to Embassies, military bases, etc. In international countries, American branded hotels become targets. Condoleezza Rice commented recently that, after 9/11, hotels became known as “soft targets” as they are unable to be hardened much like a U.S. embassy. Many times, they don’t have the stand-off distance or the physical security measures in place such as an embassy.
Gary Grossman: With more Americans traveling and International travelers coming to the US in record numbers, hotel security must be a top priority. RED Hotel deep dives into a plot that shows just how important safety must be and what we can do to become more aware of our surroundings.
Q. The character Dan Reilly visits Capitol Hill to lobby the government about intelligence sharing with US corporations. Why is this so important, both in your book and real life? Does the government share intelligence with US companies?
Ed Fuller: Several countries, including the United States, work with hotels and other industries, as well as agencies like the FBI, the military and the CIA to gain information about guests. These agencies also provide security information to companies doing business globally. After the bombing of Pan Am 103 in 1988, the U.S Congress passed legislation mandating that the Intelligence Community warn U.S. citizens if the IC becomes aware of threats to Americans. These warnings are channeled through the U.S. State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC). Many hotel companies have their own intelligence operations within their security departments (Condoleezza Rice calls it “mini CIA’s). These intelligence operations use a combination of “open source intelligence” (Opsint) and “human intelligence” (Humint). Additionally, some of the security departments have staff with Top Secret security clearances which gives the access to U.S. Government classified intelligence.
Gary Grossman: I learned firsthand from Ed Fuller that we’re safer when critical information is shared between intelligence agencies and hotel businesses. Moreover, with active, open relationships comes increased speed in communicating potential dangers. Speed and information allow potential targets advance time to bolster security measures. In the case of RED Hotel, these measures are based on Ed Fuller’s actual work in the field. The basic rule—make a soft target less attractive with stepped-up visible, “hardened” security measures in place and terrorists are more likely to walk.
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RED HOTEL PBS TV interview with Gary Grossman on “Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick”
A re-airing of the interview with Gary Grossman. Previous air dates included: 4/27, 4/28, 5/1. It re-aired on May 6, at 12am.
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Gary Grossman Live @ “What’s the Story?”
Monday, April 29th, 2019Gary Grossman will be live at 3:45pm (PT). The interview will be streamed live on the show’s Facebook page.
RED Hotel News!
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Up Close: Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman
Gary Grossman is no stranger to fiction—he’s a multiple Emmy Award-winning producer and author of bestselling international thrillers including Executive Actions, Executive Treason, and Executive Command. Ed Fuller, on the other hand, comes to thriller writing from a slightly different background.
As a hospitality industry leader, educator, and bestselling author of business books, Fuller might not seem the most logical writing partner for someone with both feet firmly planted in fiction. But the dynamic duo have paired up for RED HOTEL, the explosive first novel in a planned series starring Dan Reilly, a former army intelligence officer turned hotel executive with high-level access to the CIA.
The novel begins with a terrorist attack on a Tokyo hotel, killing dozens of innocents, and producing one suspect—a man Reilly will stop at nothing to track down. The plot moves at breakneck pace and that proves a somewhat unorthodox duo can absolutely produce a riveting commercial thriller.
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Emmy-winning alumnus discusses new thriller novel
Gary Grossman said he was never going to write again when he graduated from Emerson in 1970. A few years later, Grossman, a professor at the time in the Interdisciplinary program, wrote an article for the Beacon on Superman’s representation in media. Unexpectedly, this article turned into one of his first books—Superman: Serial to Cereal.
“Emerson and The Berkeley Beacon launched my career as a media historian and author,” Grossman said in a phone interview from Los Angeles.
Grossman wrote several novels, including Saturday Morning TV and the Executive trilogy, since Superman: Serial to Cereal, according to his personal website. Grossman and co-author Edwin Fuller will hold a book signing organized by the Writing, Literature and Publishing Department for Red Hotel in the Bill Bordy Theater on March 25 at 2 p.m.
Grossman’s latest fiction novel, RED Hotel, draws upon Fuller’s experiences as the president of Marriott’s International Division for 22 years. The novel was published by Beaufort Books and released on Sept. 11, 2018.
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RED Hotel by Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller ~ a Review
“I don’t think I have enjoyed a spy thriller this much since Tom Clancy stopped writing Jack Ryan, Sr. in the field. (There’s even a reference to Jack Ryan in the book, so perhaps it is slightly inspired by Clancy). So many present-day spy novels focus on cyberterrorism and financial espionage. I liked that this story relied on some old school spycraft helped by modern technology.
“Dan Reilly is a really likable main character. He isn’t without his faults, which makes him feel real. He has served in Army Intelligence, done a stint with the State Department (which I wondered if it was code for spy), and now is the V.P. of International for a luxury hotel chain.
“American hotels are prime targets for all sorts of acts of terrorism. Reilly isn’t going to sit back and let harm come to the guests of his hotels. With his contacts, he is in the perfect position to make Kensington Royal the leader in hotel protection. But his position also puts him in the perfect position to collect more or less openly collect intelligence that goes beyond hotel safety.
“…If you enjoy Cold War-era spy novels but want the thrill and pressure of current affairs, then RED Hotel is the perfect book for you.”
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Hudson native Gary Grossman to bring his new spy thriller to his old stomping ground
Hudson native Gary Grossman is an Emmy Award-winning television producer and author of the bestselling “Executive Series” political thrillers. He has also written two highly regarded nonfiction books on television history. Grossman has worked for NBC News, been a columnist for the Boston Herald American, written for the Boston Globe and The New York Times and produced more than 10,000 television programs for 40 networks. But it’s the first two words in this paragraph that define for him the source of all his career accomplishments.
“Hudson is woven into the entire fabric of my life,” he says. “Everything I’ve done is interconnected, and it all comes right back to growing up in Hudson. Whether it’s what I write about television or international politics, it all came together for me there.”
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