BOOK REVIEWS
The RED HOTEL series continues that brings the facts and fiction of travel intrigue together in an explosive plot. See what others have to say!
Roger Dow
“Baldacci, Brown, and Cussler: make room for Grossman and Fuller, and check into Red Hotel! It’s the year’s most eye-opening international thriller with a true wake-up call for everyone who travels anywhere. Page by page, the exciting plot delivers an inside-out view of the moving parts that make up the ever-changing geopolitical map. My advice—read Red Hotel now!”
Roger Dow
President and CEO, US Travel Association
Edward Bradstreet
“RED DECEPTION provides an in-depth and realistic ground level view of the type of asymmetric Nation-state sponsored threats faced by the Agencies tasked with protecting the United States both domestically and abroad. Thoroughly researched with thrilling pacing, it follows a worst case scenario with the resulting fallout and a complex investigation that unfolds all over the Globe.”
Edward Bradstreet
Special Agent- Department of Homeland Security
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
Peter Greenburg
“RED HOTEL is a cutting edge story about very real targets all around us. A real world drama that doesn’t just suggest what might happen, but is telling us what is beginning to happen right now! A must read!”
Peter Greenberg
CBS News Travel Editor
Raymond Benson
“Red Deception is a Thriller with a capital “T”! Not for the faint of heart. The doomsday scenarios depicted in this fast-paced, can’t put down nail-biter are real-world accurate and truly scary. Dan Reilly is a terrific new hero for today’s troubled times!”
Raymond Benson
Author, Blues in the Dark and The Black Stiletto Serial and James Bond novels
Doug Muldoon
“It doesn’t get better than RED DECEPTION for weaving true insider business and anti-terrorism experience into a heart-pumping international thriller! Ed Fuller has been there. Done it. Lived it. I’ve read all his books, and now his latest collaboration with Gary Grossman exposes more of his world and the dangers that lurk just below the surface. A political reality thriller of the highest caliber.”
Doug Muldoon
Chief of Police (Ret.), Palm Bay, Florida
2013 President FBI National Academy Associates
ALAN ORLOB
“There have been more terrorist attacks on hotels around the world than any other target. Ed Fuller was there, lived it and dealt with it. I know. I worked for Marriott for 35 years. From 1989 to 2012 I was the Vice-President of Safety & Security on Ed’s team. Through our close relationships with key government entities we established security protocols for our international hotels (including over 200 “threat condition RED” hotels). And believe me, RED CHAOS is the first word to the last on crisis management from someone who literally wrote the book.”
Alan OrlobFounder & CEO, Orlob Group
Bruce Feirstein
“RED HOTEL, a terrific, fast-paced, stylish, eye-opening spy thriller, with a knowing, insider’s look at the intersects of terrorism, the CIA, and world politics. Ripped right from the headlines, RED HOTEL will forever change the way you look at hotels and use the phrase road warrior.”
Bruce Feirstein
James Bond Screenwriter, Vanity Fair Contributing Editor
Best-selling author
Daniel Palmer
“Feverishly paced with surprising twists and turns, RED HOTEL starts with a bang and the action gets faster and tenser from there. Get ready for one late night when you dive into this gem of a read!”
Daniel Palmer
Best-selling author, Mercy and Forgive Me
Frank Helmick
“Heart pumping excitement — another page-turner from Fuller and Grossman. RED DECEPTON paints a picture of reality in our world today. Politics, economics, terrorism, travel, intrigue, deceit at home and overseas. An above the fold thriller by any measure!”
Frank Helmick
Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, (Ret.)
John Tierney
“Laced with drama culled from recent events, RED HOTEL places the reader directly into the role of intelligence analyst and operative as well as business and political strategist. Read RED HOTEL and it’s doubtful you’ll ever travel again without conjuring up possible intrigue from observations that used to seem like normal occurrences. Be suspicious staying overnight. A smart book.”
John Tierney
Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Member, House Intelligence Committee
Chair, National Security Subcommittee
Executive Director, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
WILLIAM CARWILE
“I’ve been engaged in national and homeland security for over 45 years, I seldom read fiction. When I do, it is historical fiction. It most often provides opportunities to learn interesting facts in an enjoyable way. While RED CHAOS is not an historical novel, given today’s news, it affords the reader an extremely compelling, most realistic and fast paced story. In crafting this riveting read, Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman have written a thriller that reflects their impressive knowledge of today’s strategic global dynamics. But they must be seen as prescient given the events happening at this moment: The real-world implications of climate change on global trade and national security, and the fragility of the world’s avenues for commerce. RED CHAOS is a timely must read for those seeking a book that is both stimulating and eye- opening.”
William CarwileColonel, US Army (Ret), Former Associate Administrator, FEMA
FRANK HEMLICK
“Turn off the news channels right now, crack open RED CHAOS, Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman’s incredible new thriller. Fuller has the inside track on bringing his experience in the field to the page. I know. I spent time with him in Iraq and you better believe he’s one of the best of the good guys. Together with Grossman they weave together a web of lies, murder, and treachery that reach to the highest levels of government in Washington. Back at the center of the action is international hotel executive Dan Reilly who must decide whether a nefarious Chinese fixer is trying to help America or bring it down. It all feels so real. It’s a read written from the inside out. A winner – Second Place is not close.”
Frank HemlickLieutenant General US Army (Ret)
Paul DeBole
“Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller have done it again in RED DECEPTION. Plot, characters, and details are gripping and captivating. A page-turner by authors who might as well sit on the National Security Council. A fantastic read!”
Paul DeBole
Former Aide to Senator John McCain and Senator Lamar Alexander
Associate Professor, History, Lasell University
Author, Conspiracy 101: An Authoritative Examination of the Greatest Conspiracies in American Politic
Steve Tidwell
“Welcome to my world. RED HOTEL is a thriller that dramatically covers a very real global threat that could redraw nation boundaries and lead the superpowers to the brink of war. Fuller and Grossman echo the warning, ‘If you see something, say something.’ They’re saying it loud and clear in RED HOTEL.”
Steve Tidwell
Former Executive Assistant Director, FBI, Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch
Will Grimsley
“RED HOTELcombined the authors’ real world experiences into a very compelling, breakneck-paced scenario that captures the imagination. RED DECEPTION takes us even further into the complex world where globalized economics and travel are integrally woven into politics, terror, intrigue, and more. Fiction that’s all too real!”
Will Grimsley
Major General, US Army, (Ret.)
KATHLEEN MATTHEWS
“In RED HOTEL-and RED DECEPTION, my Marriott colleague and global nomad, Ed Fuller, brings his love of politics and his experience in the Vietnam War and deep inside knowledge of the hotel and travel industry including crisis management to build another political thriller with Gary Grossman, an acclaimed novelist and TV producer and journalist. Pour some of the current global uncertainty into this cocktail, and you have the combustion of RED CHAOS.”
Kathleen MatthewsAmbassador for World Travel & Tourism Council, Former ABC News Anchor, Former Marriott International Senior Executive
TOM KOEHLER
“I was the commander of an F4 squadron on the USS Midway and I know what America’s Navy can do with its air power in a crisis. Having been impressed with the first two books of the Red Hotel series, I eagerly awaited reading the next volume. With RED CHAOS, Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman exceeded my expectations. Their third work is a timely fictionalization of the volatile world we live in. It is exciting and accurate; a 21st century thriller and a must read!”
Tom KoehlerCommander, F-4 pilot, Ret. USN
W. G. Griffiths
“WARNING: Read RED HOTEL with your back to the wall and keep an eye on everyone entering your immediate space. It’s a must-read thriller that weaves boots-on-the-ground experience with comet-paced, down-to-the-marrow storytelling. Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman deliver page after page, and RED HOTEL brings it on!”
W. G. Griffiths
Best-selling author, Methuselah’s Pillar, Driven
ROGER DOW
“Put the Do Not Disturb placard on your door and settle into the latest thriller in the RED HOTEL series, RED CHAOS. And trust me, chaos is ready to break out in Fuller and Grossman’s most timely novel yet! This team of masterful authors race us through one heart-pounding scene to another with prescient vision of the world as it is and things to come. Trust me, RED CHAOS delivers as a page-turning thriller that also waves a red flag at real geo-political issues we better pay attention to now!”
Roger DowFormer President & CEO U.S. Travel Association
LINDA PEEK SCHACHT
“RED CHAOS, Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller’s newest thriller, vividly draws us into two worlds: one where Washington’s power-hungry walk the halls, scheme in back offices, and lurk in the shadows of the White House and Congress, and another fraught with the intrigue and occasional inanities of international business. They engage us in the machinations of a talented assassin, an empire building, oil-crazed autocrat in the Kremlin, and a fixer in China. We see the morally ambivalent and morally bankrupt—from Moscow to Macau to Washington. Readers will cheer their richly drawn hero and heroine, international hotel executive and sometime spy Dan Reilly and Secretary of State Elizabeth Matthews as they continue the fight for right in this entertaining series firmly rooted in the real world.”
Linda Peek SchachtFormer White House Press Aide, Former Communications Director, US Senate Majority Leader, Former Global Vice President, The Coca-Cola Company
WEBB HUBBELL
“A complex web of intrigue! Compelling and fascinating! Fuller and Grossman weave a timely tale of Russian expansionism and terrorism in RED CHAOS against a backdrop of political intrigue. You will not put this thriller down as Dan Reilly races to prevent Russian world and oil domination. The authors take you behind the closed doors of our National Security to illuminate how seemingly unrelated occurrences are part of Russia’s intricate plan. I loved this book and it holds a prized place on my bookshelf.”
Webb Hubbell
Associate Attorney General of the U.S., Best-selling, award-winning author
William Grimsley
“Be ready to be catapulted into the real world of international intrigue that keeps national security experts up at night. A world where leading international oil executives are assassinated. Oil tankers are sunk in the Straits of Hormuz. An attack on the Suez Canal closes shipping for a year. Who benefits from actions like these? You’ll find out in RED CHAOS by Fuller and Grossman, and all-too real scenario with heart- pumping action from Washington to London, the Arabian Sea to the North Atlantic, Russia to China. Areas where I served, that remain in the headlines today. You’ll be swept along with RED CHAOS as I did. It’s the fastest read on the shelves in a long, long time!”
William GrimsleyMajor General US Army (Ret), Secretary of South Carolina Department of Veterans Affairs
Michael Mara, Jr
“RED DECEPTION is an adrenalin laden thriller and as true to life as it gets. As a former intelligence operative (linguist/analyst – Soviet/Warsaw Pact) with assignments to Field Station Augsburg, Germany and the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, I know that all of the explosive events, all of the alliances, and all of the deceit detailed in this book are realistic. Grossman and Fuller possess a keen insight as to the interaction(s) amongst governmental, military, intelligence, and business leaders and operatives. Compelling insight into the world of high stakes drama, deception and intrigue; full of intricate relationships, and the complexity of independent, yet interconnected scenarios. RED DECEPTION just can’t be put down. I want more. Outstanding!”
Michael Mara, Jr
Former member of the U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command (INSCOM)
Douglas F. Muldoon
“Just when I thought Fuller and Grossman couldn’t turn up the heat any more after their award-winning RED DECEPTION, along comes RED CHAOS, with a spot-on, globe-hopping plot. Ed Fuller comes to thriller writing from years as an international hotel executive job. On top of that, he had a heavy dose of anti- terrorism experience. His collaboration with Gary Grossman delivers ticking clock scenarios that play out real because so much of it is real, or just on the edge of reality. RED CHAOS is a top flight thriller that will have you spell-bound from page one!”
Douglas F. MuldoonChief of Police (ret), City of Palm Bay Police Department, 2013 FBI National Academy Associates President
Alan Orlob
“Wow! Here we go again! I thought RED HOTEL was an adrenaline pumper, but RED DECEPTION takes it all the way up! Each chapter is incredibly realistic making me hungry for more. No one knows more about operating hotels in hostile environments than Ed Fuller! Grossman and Fuller hit the 10 ring with their latest thriller!”
Alan Orlob
Travel Security Expert, CEO The Orlob Group
Former VP President of Global Safety & Security
Marriott International Corporation
U.S. Army Special Forces, (Ret.)