NYC Native Writes First-ever NYPD Bomb Squad Series, Third Book Hits Shelves
J.E. Fishman taps NYPD Bomb Squad commander to craft realistic, action-packed series.
- New York, NY (1888PressRelease) April 02, 2014 - While much has been made about New York City's police force, firefighters and forensic teams, little has been written about one of the city's most elite forces: the NYPD Bomb Squad. Native New Yorker and author J.E. Fishman looks to change that as he honors this special unit of the NYPD by penning the first-ever series of novels based on its exploits, titled "Bomb Squad NYC." To write the series, Fishman worked closely with highly-experienced technical advisor Lieutenant Mark Torre, who has been commander of the NYPD Bomb Squad headquartered in Manhattan's West Village for the past decade.
The third book in the series, Bomb Squad NYC Incident 3: The Long Black Hand (Verbitrage, April 2, 2014), follows bomb squad commander Lieutenant Joseph Capobianco as he fields an unusual request: a bomb sweep at the famed Julius School of Music and at the luxurious apartment of their visiting star tenor, Claudio Spotto. At first, nothing is found in the way of bombs, but other signs of trouble mount rapidly. Someone doesn't want Spotto to remain in New York, and that someone is threatening violence via bomb.
The debut book in the series, A Danger to Himself and Others (Verbitrage, March 4, 2014), follows NYC bomb squad detective Manuel Diaz as he and his team try to figure out why disabled veterans are blowing themselves up in front of Armed Forces recruiting stations. Foreword magazine raved "… Fishman stares convention in the face and manages to mix a true entertainment gumbo in A Danger to Himself and Others."
Death March (Verbitrage, March 18, 2014), the second book in the series, begins on the eve of the famed Thanksgiving Day Parade when a credible tip comes in from national intelligence sources: A master bomb maker from a radical Islamist group plans to disrupt the event in spectacular fashion while causing mass casualties. The NYPD bomb techs must protect millions of spectators strung along the two-and-a-half-mile parade route.
The Long Black Hand will be followed by the release of Blast from the Past (Verbitrage, Sept. 15, 2014), which follows detective Kieran Lehane, a bomb squad veteran who finds himself in danger for getting too close to the truth on an old case that supposedly had been solved.
To accompany the series, Fishman wrote the Amazon best-selling nonfiction book Dynamite: A Concise History of the NYPD Bomb Squad (Verbitrage, Nov. 3, 2013). Starting in an era of horse-drawn carriages and ending in the Jet Age, Dynamite is the most comprehensive history every written about the oldest bomb squad in the world.
J.E. Fishman, a former New York literary agent and Doubleday editor, now writes full time. His debut novel Primacy (Verbitrage, September 2011) was critically acclaimed - Kirkus called it "more fun than a barrel of overgrown monkeys" and Publishers Weekly called it "an appealing debut thriller." He is also the author of the mystery Cadaver Blues: A Phuoc Goldberg Fiasco (Verbitrage, October 2012), and the financial thriller The Dark Pool (Verbitarge, February 2013). When he isn't working on the next installment in the "Bomb Squad NYC" series, he contributes to The Huffington Post and the online literary magazine The Nervous Breakdown. Fishman, a long time resident of the New York area, now splits his time between Manhattan and Chadds Ford, Pa. Learn more at www.bombsquadnyc.com.
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