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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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4 Thrillers to Read to Get Your Halloween Fix

Tuesday, October 29th, 2019

Cozy sweaters and cooling weather make autumn the perfect time to dive into a few spooky stories. Before you rewatch Hocus Pocus for the fifth time this month, why not pick up a written thriller instead? We put together a list of four of our favorite Beaufort thrillers to curl up with during the month of October. But be careful, only the extremely brave should dare to read these titles alone after the sun sets.

The Woman in the Park

As a summer 2019 release, The Woman in the Park is the latest psychological thriller from Beaufort to hit shelves. While The Purist Magazine called it “the beach read you’ve been waiting for” and SheReads named it one of the 10 best chilling end-of-summer thrillers, The Woman in the Park is just as great of a read while stretched out on the sand as it is curled up on the couch.

Synopsis:

When Manhattanite Sarah Rock meets a mysterious and handsome stranger in the park, she is drawn to him. Sarah wants to get away from her daily routine, her cheating husband and his crazy mistress, her frequent sessions with her heartless therapist, and her moody children. But nothing is as it seems. Her life begins to unravel when a woman from the park goes missing and Sarah becomes the prime suspect in the woman’s disappearance. Her lover is nowhere to be found, her husband is suspicious of her, and her therapist is talking to the police. With no one to trust, Sarah must face her inner demons and uncover the truth to prove her innocence.

RED Hotel

A timely thriller based on real-life acts of war, RED Hotel teeters on the edge of reality until the very end. This action-packed book is a combined effort of authors Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller, in which they use their long-standing experience in the hospitality and entertainment industries to write a novel about a terrorist attack at a Tokyo hotel.

Synopsis:

When a bomb rips the façade 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.

Seeking Hyde

If you love Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, you’ll love Thomas Reed’s Seeking Hyde. Reed’s book dives into the history of one of the world’s most famous authors, while taking readers along a gripping, heart-pounding journey through late-19th century London. This Beaufort title is the perfect Halloween read for lovers of historical thrillers and die-hard Stevenson fans.

Synopsis:

Seeking Hyde sticks closely to the biographical record as Robert Louis Stevenson struggles to write another book to be the successor to Treasure Island. After the infamous two characters, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, take form in a dream, Stevenson writes passionately for three days, convinced that he has crafted his masterpiece. His wife Fanny, a willful and demanding gypsy, offers a scathing critique, obliging him to start over from the beginning. While the revised tale is published to great acclaim, it is ultimately blamed for inspiring a gruesome series of murders in London’s East End. Desperate to address his own guilt, Stevenson enters the dark underworld of Victorian London. As he follows a twisted path through this midnight landscape, the author-turned-detective wrestles with the social demons of prostitution, police corruption, and the hypocrisy of powerful men—ultimately coming face-to-face with Jack the Ripper himself.

Ladies of the Lake

Author Ken Corday, established producer of popular day-time soap Days of Our Lives, made his publishing debut with the chilling thriller Ladies of the Lake. Since publication, Corday’s novel has been adapted into a successful digital TV series by the same name. This thriller offers readers entertaining family drama, a world-class cast of characters, and a shocking twist-ending that will leave you wanting more.

Synopsis:

From the outside, Avalon seems like the ideal place to live; full of rich men and beautiful women. Six couples form a close-knit friendship; the men all golf together, the women all shop together, and their six children all skip school together. But the wives begin to resent feeling like possessions and realize that the men become crueler every day. When more husbands start dying, the so-called “Ladies of the Lake” find themselves under suspicion from the LAPD and their own children. The six children try to uncover their parents’ secrets before the handsome Detective Daniels can discover what is truly going on behind closed gates. 

Get into the spirit of Halloween with any one of these Beaufort titles. Visit Barnes & Noble or IndieBound to pick up a copy of your chosen thriller today!

Wishing you all a happy Halloween,

Mia ThermoBEAUlis

RED HOTEL News!

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019

Interview: “The Future of Travel, With Former Marriott President and Author, Ed Fuller”

Author Ed Fuller was interviewed by Candice Georgiadis for Thrive Global!

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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, 2019

Gary Grossman will be live at 3:45pm (PT). The interview will be streamed live on the show’s Facebook page.