DANA HAYNES – St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking

He’s spent more than 20 years in Oregon newspaper newsrooms, dividing his time and energy between weekly’s and daily’s. He’s won awards as a reporter, a columnist and as an editor. A native of the Pacific Northwest, he also served as spokesman for the mayor of Portland, Oregon.

His first suspense/thriller, CRASHERS, was released in 2010 by Minotaur Books, a division of St. Martin’s Press. It won the Spotted Owl Award from Friends of Mystery as 2010’s best mystery or thriller written by a Northwest writer.

BREAKING POINT, the sequel to CRASHERS, was released in 2011 and hailed as a “white-knuckle thriller” by the Library Journal.

In 2013 & 2014, our guest released ICE COLD KILL & GUN METAL HEART, which follow the high-energy exploits of Operative (wink/wink) Daria Gibron. Last week’s guest, Meg Gardiner, said, “These books are a blast!”

Today, we’re going to talk about his latest release, ST. NICHOLAS SALVAGE & WRECKING. Please welcome to the show, thriller writer extraordinaire, Dana Haynes…

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Michael Patrick Finnigan was a NYC cop and a US Marshal who finally figured out that following the rules doesn’t always get the job done. Katalin Fiero Dahar was a soldier, spy, and assassin for Spain, who figured out that breaking the rules isn’t always in her best interest.

Together, they created St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking, a largely illegal bounty hunting operation based in Cyprus and working throughout Europe. Operating under the radar for the presiding judge of the International Criminal Court, they track down the worst of the world’s worst.

Someone is kidnapping Middle Eastern refugee children as they flee war-torn countries and selling them into prostitution around the world. Finnigan and Fiero get the assignment to track them down and save the refugees. But when they discover that the perpetrators are a Serbian mobster – with patronage at the highest levels of the United Nations – and a battalion of the Kosovo military, the partners reach out to their ”friends” to find justice, including a corrupt banker, a cadre of mercenaries, and a crew of professional thieves.

The battle to stop the mass kidnappings ranges from Belgrade and Zagreb, to the Loire Valley and Milan, and to the plains of Kosovo. As Finnigan and Fiero close in, the conspirators realize that the judge of the ICC is the real threat and plan an assassination. Now the partners have to save their patron and the kidnapped refugees from a rogue military force with nothing left to lose.

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“You absolutely must read Crashers! It grabs you on page one and doesn’t let you go until the final page.”–Nelson DeMille

Whenever a plane goes down, a “Go Team” is assembled to investigate. The members of that team–each a leading expert in a specific field–are known as CRASHERS

Portland, Oregon: A passenger plane has gone down. Enter NTSB investigator and pathologoist “Tommy” Tomzak who leads his team–a voice recorder specialist, bomb expert, engineer, mechanic, pilot, and crime scene specialist among them–to grapple with the evidence. Usually the Crashers have months to determine the cause of a crash. But this time it’s different: The plane appears to have been brought down deliberately. The enemy might be one of their own. And an off-site operative who made a name for herself in Israeli intelligence has just made a catastrophic discovery: In less than three days, terror will strike the U.S. airways yet again…

“An explosive mix of 24 and CSI.”–USA Today

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“The large cast of compelling characters, nonstop action, and realistic feel of the investigation make this novel a standout…A thrill ride.” – Associated Press

In his acclaimed novel “Crashers,” Dana Haynes introduced readers to the fearless NTSB experts who investigate airplane wrecks. Now the “Crashers” are back and they’re reaching the BREAKING POINT.

High above the mountains of Montana, a twin turbo prop plane plunges from the sky and crashes into the forest. On board are three members of the NTSB: pathologist Tommy Tomzak, Navy vet Kiki Duvall, and former FBI agent Isaiah Grey. Known in the field as “Crashers,” they believe the wreck is no accident the plane was brought down on purpose and the culprits have only just begun. Led by an enigmatic, self-proclaimed patriot known as Calendar, a ruthless team of mercenaries are determined to stop the trio from blowing the whistle on the weapons trade. With time running out and fire raging closer to the wreckage the Crashers must stand up and fight or go down in flames.

“A top-notch, tension-packed techno-thriller.” – Booklist

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Daria Gibron is a woman with a deadly past and an uncertain future. A former Shin-Bet agent now in exile in the U.S. and under the protection of the F.B.I., she works primarily as an interpreter. But Daria is a thrill junkie who can’t resist the occasional freelance job as an operative-a habit that has left her with a trail of corpses behind her, and a few still living, very dangerous, high-powered enemies who would stop at nothing to get revenge.

En route to an impromptu meeting with an old contact from her days in the Israeli Secret Service, Daria gets an unexpected and anonymous tipoff that she’s about to walk into an ambush. Unsure who is after her, or why, she slips away from her followers and soon learns that she’s been set up-and set up good. Someone has linked her to a much sought-after terrorist, and now all the resources of the U.S. intelligence community are being marshaled against her.

As she tries to escape the ever-tightening snare laid out for her, someone else is using the operation against her as a distraction to hijack a very dangerous, highly guarded shipment. Now the only person who can keep this shipment from falling into terrorist hands is the one person they chose to set up as a diversion. Daria Gibron is many things-trigger-happy, resourceful, focused, and extremely dangerous -but the one thing she isn’t is anybody’s fool.

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In Gun Metal Heart by Dana Haynes, Daria Gibron, a freelance operative with a long and deadly history, has been slowly recovering from the injuries sustained from her last case.

Hiding out in a town in rural Italy, she has been staying as far off the map as she can―until she’s tracked down by an old colleague. Diego had been a bodyguard in Florence, protecting an engineer and her invention, when they were attacked by a highly trained paramilitary group. Diego alone escaped and the White Scorpions, a Serbian mercenary group known for their indiscriminate violence, are now after him. Well, after him and Daria, now that he’s dragged her into the picture.

At the same time, a small group of disgraced CIA agents have been waiting for their chance to exact revenge on the person they blame for their discharge―Daria Gibron. When they learn she’s in contact with Diego, they get the okay from their former bosses to take her out. With several highly trained teams out to get her, a partner withholding critical information, and a missing invention around which everything turns, Daria is in the worst danger of her life. And she couldn’t be having more fun.

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  • Preview and Order Mark's Motivational Books on Amazon:

    What is a goal? It’s been defined in many ways, most of them so complex that things get fuzzy and complicated. Put simply, a goal is something you want to do. PUSH is designed to help readers think about things more simply. Identify your goals and put forth the simple, dedicated effort to achieve them.

    You may not realize it, but you’re being watched. It happens each day in the most undetectable way. Somewhere, someone is watching. You touch more lives and topple more dominoes than you could ever imagine. For someone, you are the light in their darkness or the example to which they aspire.

    Why do you do what you do? It’s a useful question to ponder. If you knew that no one would hear your song, would you still sing? Knowing that the chairs in the auditorium will be empty, will you still take the stage and dance just as enthusiastically? Explore why you do what you do and develop self-trust and quiet confidence.