The Baltimore Orioles are a Major League Baseball franchise in crisis. It has been 43 years since they last won a World Series, back when they were a consistently competitive franchise year after year. That was nearly half a century ago.
My blog posts here and on The Compass Room with Mark James serve three general purposes: 1) to engage with readers; 2) to articulate what I am thinking, which in turn helps clarify what I am thinking; and 3) to use writing itself — putting thoughts to paper, or to your screen — as my own attempt at...
Let us go back to the Iran nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), finalized in July 2015 by Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council — the United States, Great Britain, France, China, and Russia — plus Germany and the European Union.
We are 30 days into the Iran War, and according to pundits on the left and right, it is already an utter disaster. Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz. Oil and gas markets are reeling. Israel and the United States are supposedly running out of missiles. Iran is still firing drones and ballistic missiles. Now the Houthis are joining...
North Arrow Press proudly presents The Wartmann Series, a pair of timely, high-stakes geopolitical thrillers by Kirkus-starred author Mark James.
News pundits almost universally seem to think that the Iran War – like the Iraq War in the early 2000s – is an illegal war of choice on the part of America.
So now that the war has started, how will it end? What happens now?
If you are of a certain age – say, 55 to 65 – then the war you knew was coming your whole life is here.
Renee Good. I saw the video. I was horrified. Who wouldn't be?
There are a handful of trade magazines and review outlets that function as the standard-bearers for thriller writers. The big three, in my mind, are Kirkus Reviews, BookLife (Publishers Weekly), and Midwest Book Review (MBR). A strong review from any one of them is a major validation of the work.