A man without a country.
A spy without a master.
A rogue with one more mission.
Asset in Black
by Casey Prescott
From the minds of
Janet & Chris Morris
Genre: Action Techno-Thriller
A man without a country.
A spy without a master.
A rogue with one more mission.
Cordell 'Cory' Hunt, a renegade free agent who has worked
for both U.S. and Soviet intelligence agencies, is recalled from Morocco by
U.S. agents to give one final debriefing. Within hours, he's headed on a
nightmare black op with more hanging in the balance than he'd ever expected.
Asset in Black is the single best espionage/spy thriller
I've ever found. Complicated characters, women in major roles, shifting
alliances and shifting loyalties, layers on layers, tremendous action
sequences, a sleek plot, everything in perfect focus, a dog, and supremely
satisfying ending. Thirty years after I first read it, it remains remarkably
undated, and I'll still place it at the top of my top ten list. – Amazon Review
Casey Prescott is a pseudonym for authors Janet Morris & Chris Morris
Best selling author Janet
Morris began writing in 1976 and has since published more than 30 novels,
many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. Most of her fiction
work has been in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she has also
written historical and other novels. Morris has written, contributed to, or
edited several book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles
on nonlethal weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and
national security topics.
Christopher Crosby
Morris (born 1946) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction, as
well as a lyricist, musical composer, and singer-songwriter. He is married to
author Janet Morris. He is a defense policy and strategy analyst and a
principal in M2 Technologies, Inc. He writes primarily as Chris Morris, but
occasionally uses pseudonyms.
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What is something unique/quirky about you?
Together we breed Morgan horses. We consult with Morgan breeders to help them choose crosses to their stock to achieve a desired result.
We are also musicians; Janet plays bass guitar, Chris sings and plays guitar. We have an album on MCA records. Look for Christopher Crosby Morris on Soundcloud or N1M.com
Can you, for those who don't know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author?
Janet wrote her first novel, High Couch of Silistra in 1975; a friend sent it to an agent who chose to represent her; she had already written the second book in the Silistra Quartet and her agent told her not to disclose that until they finalized the contract for the first one. When the publisher learned of the others, Bantam Books bought the succeeding three. When the fourth book was published, the series already had four million copies in print. Suddenly Janet was a novelist specializing in environmental, gender, historical and political subjects. In the process, Chris started as her editor and ultimately a co-writer. Since then, she and Chris have co-authored many books.
Who is your hero and why?
Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-socratic philosopher, whose Cosmic Fragments foreshadow our knowledge of reality and how to perceive it. Among his precepts is the statement that change alone is unchanging. We’ve worked Heraclitus’ fragments in here and there throughout our books.
Which of your novels can you imagine being made into a movie?
All of them. We write cinematically, our books are vivid adventures we undertake without knowing the destination. I, the Sun, The Sacred Band, and Outpassage are particularly suited to film. The Threshold Series is a feast of opportunities for today’s special effects creators.
What inspired you, to write Asset in Black?
Collecting intelligence is how a writer prepares to speak with enough authority to be convincing to the reader. Espionage and Special Operations enjoy a mythos among fiction genres because of the covert nature of gathering and then acting upon the intelligence gathered in the process. We found it fascinating enough to want to build a story where we would take our readers on a covert operation.
Who designed your book covers?
The cover of Asset in Black was created for Perseid Press by Roy Mauritsen.
Advice to writers?
As for advice to writers, here is all we know: write the story you want to read. Start at the beginning, go to the end, and stop. Seriously. From start to finish you must inhabit the construct in a manner that makes the reader choose to continue; if we as writers can’t feel what it’s like being there, our readers can’t either. Close your eyes, look at your feet where they are standing on the story’s ground; tell us what you see. Tell us what you hear. Ask at the end of each paragraph ‘what happens next?’. If you lose touch with it wait until you’re back inside it. Tell the story that comes to you, and from you, to us.
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