John Pearce

John Pearce's work as a journalist in Europe led to his interest in the dark arts of Cold War espionage and its less violent but still dangerous little brother, the push and pull of the west vs the authoritarian remnants of the Soviet Union. A part-time resident of Paris, he has been an avid lover of the city since the days he reported for the International Herald Tribune from a base in Germany. It was only natural that his new series of thrillers would have their center in Paris, in the form of Eddie Grant, the third in his line of Paris dwellers to serve in the American military, then return to their own lives and businesses in Paris. Eddie's role was as a company commander of U.S. Special Forces in the First Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm. Eddie maintains his relations with his college friend and fellow Special Forces officer Icky Grant, now a senior manager in the CIA, for whom he does favors from time to time. His inseparable partner in the series is his wife Aurélie Cabillaud, a stunning six-foot beauty whose day job is as professor of French literature and history at the Sorbonne. Periodically she works as visiting professor at Columbia University in New York.