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!
WG Griffiths
“Another thrilling masterpiece from Grossman and Fuller! A real inside view into the shocking behind-the-scenes world of international politics and intrigue. RED DECEPTION is a fact-rich page-turner, expertly fit together like a giant jigsaw puzzle that will keep you completely fascinated right up to the surprise finish. Wow!”
WG Griffiths
“Renegade Writer” host, best-selling thriller author, “Malcus”
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.)
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
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
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
Rear Admiral Paul Becker
“As the former Director of Intelligence (J2) for the U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii and Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, I know these dangerous scenarios are plausible, which makes RED DECEPTION all the more thrilling. Infrastructure attacks, Russian aggression, bumbling national leaders, North Korea malign activity, Venezuelan dangers – Fuller and Grossman’s exciting story mirrors reality. Oh, and the U.S. needs more heroes like their daring CIA Officer Dan Reilly!”
Rear Admiral Paul Becker, USN, (Ret.)
Former Director of Intelligence, U.S. Pacific Command
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
R.G. Belsky
“RED DECEPTION starts with a shocking series of terrorist attacks against America, then races along at break-neck pace until the mind-blowing ending. There are inept political leaders; new threats to world peace from Russia and North Korea; deadly assassins; and secrets and betrayal everywhere. Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller have given us a must-read thriller that truly feels like it’s ripped from today’s headlines, or even scarier, tomorrow’s.”
R.G. Belsky
Award-winning author of the Clare Carlson series
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
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)
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ED FULLER is a hospitality industry leader, educator, and author of the international Top 20 bestselling business book, You Can’t Lead with Your Feet on the Desk, published by Wiley. He is president of the Irvine, CA-based Laguna Strategic Advisors, a global consortium that provides business consulting services to corporations and governments. Fuller is a director of the Federal Bureau of Investigators National Academy Associates Foundation (FBINAA). He has served as a Board Executive of several Charity Boards and Three University Boards. His 40-year career with Marriott included serving as CMO and several regional operational positions that was capped by his role as president and managing director of Marriott International for 22 years. As worldwide chief, he directed and administered corporate expansion of 555 hotels in 73 countries and $8 billion in sales. During that time, he oversaw the creation of Marriott International’s Global Security Strategy. Fuller served as a captain in the U.S. Army and was decorated with a Bronze Star and Army Commendation medals. READ MORE
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
Roger Dow
“RED DECEPTION delivers another loud wake-up call that rang so true in RED HOTEL. This time, Fuller and Grossman take us even further into the new Cold War that shows every sign of turning RED hot. Reading RED DECEPTION shows us how fast the map of the world could change yet again!”
Roger Dow
President and CEO, US Travel Association
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Red Hotel The luxury hotel industry is at the center of this engrossing, if windy, collaboration between Grossman (Executive Actions) and Fuller, a longtime Marriott executive and author of the business book You Can’t Lead with Your Feet on the Deck. Click to Read the Publishers Weekly Review
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K. J. Howe
“Grossman and Fuller deliver gritty insider detail in their thriller Red Hotel, bringing fact and fiction together in an explosive mix. With pacing that would leave Olympian Usain Bolt breathless, Red Hotel is a must-read for international travelers and anyone seeking to understand the new Russia.”
K. J. Howe
Best-selling author, The Freedom Broker
Executive Director, Thrillerfest
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.)
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
Barry Kibrick
“With their novel, Red Hotel, acclaimed journalist and thriller writer Gary Grossman and international hotel executive and Army combat veteran Ed Fuller showed how the world we live in has changed. Red Deception, takes the genre to another level, demonstrating how a true-to-life thriller can deliver vital information over even what the news media provides. Besides keeping us on the edge of our seats, Red Deception is so prescient, filled with deep insights into the real worlds of espionage and politics, while giving us a window that sheds light onto the darkest aspects of political intrigue and human nature.”
Barry Kibrick
Host of national PBS series, “Between the Lines”
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
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.)
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
Jon Land
“Forget “ripped from the headlines,” because RED DECEPTION threatens to write its own! RED DECEPTION is everything a great thriller is supposed to be! High stakes, incredible action scenes, a deadly plot, and a dynamic hero in Dan Reilly. Gary Grossman and Ed Fuller have crafted a relentlessly riveting tale that hones in on our greatest fears and takes us right to the brink in breathless fashion.”
Jon Land
USA Today best-selling author
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
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