Lunch with New York Times Best Selling Author David Hagberg

Lunch with New York Times Best Selling author David Hagberg. Our usual stop is Sarasota's Polo Club in Lakewood Ranch. Talked publishing, tipped a few and snapped some photos of our novels...cause that's how we roll...




DAVID HAGBERG has published more than seventy novels of suspense, including the bestselling JOSHUA'S HAMMER, SOLDIER of GOD, and ALLAH'S SCORPIION. 

Former Air Force cryptographer David Hagberg is a bestselling author of international thrillers who has a knack for creating fiction that becomes fact. In THE WHITE HOUSE he predicted North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. In JOSHUA’S HAMMER he foresaw the 9/11 attack on the United States by bin Laden and his al-Quaeda, in DESERT FIRE Saddam Hussein’s nuclear ambitions, in HIGH FLIGHT the downing of airliners as a method of terrorism on a massive scale. 

Born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota, David Hagberg joined the Air Force right out of high School where he was trained as a cryptographer, stationed in Greenland above the Arctic Circle and in Germany where he helped construct the (then) world’s largest crypto center on the planet. He attended the University of Maryland, Overseas Division and the University of Wisconsin studying physics, mathematics and philosophy. 

But he learned to write as a cub reporter on the Duluth Herald & News-Tribune and later as a news desk editor for the Associated Press. His first novel TWISTER was published in 1975 by Dell, and since that time he has published more than 70 novels of suspense in a career that includes a nomination for The American Book Award, three nominations for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award and three Mystery Scene best American Mystery awards. 

His papers are archived at the University of South Florida in Tampa. 

David and his wife Laurie, who is a professional fundraiser, make their home in Sarasota, Florida from where, whenever they have spare time, sail the West Coast of the State and the Keys.


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Shockwave

Impressive. This is the mystery suspense novel done right!

I'm posting these book reviews to give everyone time to read two novels, The Expediter and The Cabal. David Hagberg is a friend. He has written over 85 books, impressive. If you like CIA terrorist stories, he's the guy to read. You'll be hooked on the series. His next book, The Abyss is due in June 21, 2011. 

Start off by reading The Expediter then The Cabal by that time you'll be ready for The Abyss. His books are available everywhere. I've added links to the kindle versions to make it easy.

This is David and I in Sarasota tipping a few...

The Cabal

Hagberg continues to write the best techno-thriller action adventures out there. Without spoiling the story, what Hagberg did in this novel took guts. Those that have read The Cabal know what I'm talking about. 

Kirk McGarvey the ex-CIA Director faces murder, assassins and conspiracy page after page. The novel begins with Kirk's son in law and a murder and it builds from there. It's well thought out with great characters. The plot is tight, the action is fast and the villains are real making this book Hagberg's best. This is truly a great book. 

The Cabal

The Expediter 

North Korea, China, assassination, and world threat, Hagberg’s timing couldn’t be better with today’s fractured world of North Korea’s chessboard maneuvering of espionage and game playing. 

David writes a fast flowing, gripping adventure mystery that reads like a white-knuckle thriller should. 

Immediately, you start to wonder with a story this good, if Hagberg has an inside seat during the CIA and foreign government briefings. 

The story is set up perfect, characters flushed out, realistic, and the plot unfolds with a reading experience that moves like a bullet. The ending of this novel sets America up for a nightmare, and knowing Hagberg’s novels...we’re in for it. 

I’ve got to know where his next book takes us. Excellent read!

The Expediter 

all the best

Norm