Brad Thor
In a crowded field of espionage fiction, Brad Thor writes like someone who assumes the threat briefing just ended and the clock is already ticking. Born in Chicago in 1969, Thor did not begin his career in a bunker or on a battlefield, but in classrooms and television studios. He studied creative writing, film, and television at the University of Southern California, graduating with honors, and later created and hosted the PBS travel series Traveling Lite. That early immersion in visual storytelling left its mark. His novels move with the clean precision of a well-edited scene, locations rendered sharply, action unfolding in tight,…