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Bob Mayer

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Besides my own interests, I read whatever my wife tells me to read-- she's a voracious reader and has wide-ranging tastes as my reviews show (she also always has the TV remote and she's always right about what to watch). I read a lot of nonfiction, mostly for research. Some of my favorite books are Lonesome Dove, Mystic River, LOTR, and an array of science fiction classics including the Foundation series. Our house is covered with books, although I finally broke down and started reading eBooks, strangely enough on my iPhone. Since I carry it pretty much everywhere, it means I always have an entire library of books with me.

I'm a West Point graduate, former Green Beret and a New York Times Bestselling Author. I've sold over five million book ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 83,753 ratings · 6,198 reviews · 184 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Reply (Area 51, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 2,749 ratings — published 1998 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eyes of the Hammer (The Green Berets #1; Dave Riley #1) 4.09 avg rating — 1,872 ratings — published 1991 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightstalkers (Area 51: The Nightstalkers, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 1,710 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Truths (Area 51: The Nightstalkers, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 949 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lost Girls (The Cellar, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 801 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rift (Area 51: Nightstalkers, #3) 4.01 avg rating — 801 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bodyguard of Lies (The Cellar, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 723 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time Patrol (Area 51: The Nightstalkers, #4) 4.14 avg rating — 580 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Assault on Atlantis (Atlantis, #5) 3.90 avg rating — 607 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragon Sim-13 (The Green Berets, #2) 4.22 avg rating — 557 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Things were almost chilly this morning when I went outside to throw a tarp over the load on the trailer I have to haul away. Yes, I have a trailer now. And a barn. And about five acres in west TN. It’s been two months and we’re almost settled in. We have a cottage and a cabin where the furniture is in place and just some arranging to do and then we will be figuring out our plan to have writers com

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Dave Riley (8 books)
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Area 51: The Nightstalkers (4 books)
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The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

by William K. Klingaman

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Bob Mayer answered Kerrie Howard's question: I love the Liz Danger series! Thanks for getting them published so close together. You and Jennie are an amazing team!! I loved Don't Look Down, Agnes and The Hitman and Wild Ride too!! Will you be publishing the Rocky Start series in the same manner? Rocky Start is scheduled for June 2024. We hope to release the following books two months apart. It all depends on how quickly we write them. We'll keep at least 2 months between books but if we can move up the start date, we will. We don't put a pre See Full Answer
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Bob Mayer and 9 other people liked Deborah Blake's review of Lavender's Blue (Liz Danger #1): "This is classic Crusie and Mayer at their best. Funny, smart, and the perfect balance of mystery and romance. Can't wait until the next two in the series come out."
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Bob Mayer and 16 other people liked Elizabeth's review of Lavender's Blue (Liz Danger #1): "The first Crusie since Maybe This Time satisfies my need for a smart, driven, female protagonist who faces a rain of calamities -- and comes out smarter, happier, and, ultimately, successful. Lavender's Blue is the first book in a Liz Danger trilogy " Read more of this review »
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“Content is King. Promotion is Queen”
― Bob Mayer

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“In darkness there is death.”
― Bob Mayer

tags: fiction, first-lines, thriller, thrillers

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“It’s more in line with the warnings they put on plastic laundry covers: Don’t wrap this around your head: could be bad for you. I think Darwinism has to get a chance to work. The more we protect stupid people from themselves, the more we ensure the long, slow descent of the human race into idiocracy.”
― Bob Mayer, Nightstalkers

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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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Noir by Christopher Moore

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Conclave by Robert Harris

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Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell

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Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic

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Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P.D. James

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Ye Gods! a Tale of Dogs and Demons by Lynne M. Hinkey

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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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