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Ridley Pearson

06/08/2013 4:30 pm

Ridley Pearson will sign and discuss Choke Point (Putnam; $26.95). 

Ridley Pearson is a New York Times best-selling author with more than 40 novels published in 22 languages in 70 countries. He has had his novels adapted to both network television and the stage. He has also co-produced and written documentaries for television. Ridley has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Craig Ferguson, CNN, the BBC, NPR, and has been reviewed in major newspapers around the world.

Ridley began his career as a singer/songwriter for an acoustic rock band and spent nearly a decade on the road.  Today, he continues his music as a founding member of The Rockbottom Remainders, a '60s rock 'n roll band featuring bestselling authors.

Following attendance at Kansas University and Brown University, Ridley’s songwriting led to script writing, and script writing to novels.  His first work, Never Look Back, was published in 1985. In 1991, Ridley was the first American to serve as the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellow in Detective Fiction at Wadham College, Oxford University, England. In 2008, he was a visiting professor in the College Of International Language and Literature at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

Raised in Riverside, Connecticut, Ridley, his wife, Marcelle, and their two daughters currently divide their time between the Midwest and the Northern Rockies.

Book List
ISBN-13/Model with Review: 

Choke Point (Hardcover)

By Ridley Pearson
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780399158841
Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Published: Putnam Adult, 6/2013
Other Editions of this Title
When an award-winning foreign journalist reveals the existence of an Amsterdam-based sweatshop known as a "knot shop" that employs and enslaves young girls as laborers, private security firm Rutherford Risk is hired by a philanthropist to find it and shut it down. 

David "Sarge" Dulwich, Knox's former boss from their government contractor days, knows that Knox's cultural knowledge, combat skills, and sympathy for the abused make him right for the job. Joined by Grace Chu, whose more subtle skills for acquiring sensitive tech information help to balance Knox's improvisational style, he heads to Amsterdam in an attempt to dismantle the child labor operation and rescue the girls. In their way is a crime organization that has permeated the neighborhoods with goodwill turning even the victims' parents against their would-be saviors. With enemies around every corner, Knox and Grace can't tell the good from the bad.
 
To order an inscribed copy of the book, please include inscription information in the comment line. 

ISBN-13/Model with Review: 

The Risk Agent (Mass Market Paperback)

By Ridley Pearson
$9.99
ISBN-13: 9780515153040
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Jove, 3/2013
Other Editions of this Title
A Chinese National working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off the streets of Shanghai in broad daylight. His one-man security detail goes missing as well. 
Rutherford Risk is a firm specializing in extraction: the negotiation for, and the recovery of hostages. Private investigation is illegal in today's China. Operating within her borders will be difficult at best.The security company recruits two unique outsiders to do their bidding. Grace Chu is a forensic accountant hired to follow the money; John Knox is a civilian with unparalleled training in both combat and culture. Grace's top-notch American education and Chinese military service make her an unassuming, but effective, operative, while Knox's take-no-prisoners attitude brings them perilously close to harm. Following the money leads to more complex - and dangerous - consequences than either anticipated. Who is actually behind the kidnapping? And more important, can Knox and Grace locate the two hostages ahead of the deadline?Rich with the atmosphere of Shanghai and crackling with tension-filled suspense, Pearson's latest introduces two compelling new characters--and heralds in the start of a brilliant new series.

To order an inscribed copy of the book, please include inscription information in the comment line.

Location: 
Street:
2342 Bissonnet St
Additional:
City:
Houston
,
Province:
Texas
Postal Code:
77005
Country:
United States
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