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!
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
Michael Mara, Jr
“RED DECEPTION is an adrenalin laden thriller and as true to life as it gets. As a former intelligence operative (linguist/analyst – Soviet/Warsaw Pact) with assignments to Field Station Augsburg, Germany and the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, I know that all of the explosive events, all of the alliances, and all of the deceit detailed in this book are realistic. Grossman and Fuller possess a keen insight as to the interaction(s) amongst governmental, military, intelligence, and business leaders and operatives. Compelling insight into the world of high stakes drama, deception and intrigue; full of intricate relationships, and the complexity of independent, yet interconnected scenarios. RED DECEPTION just can’t be put down. I want more. Outstanding!”
Michael Mara, Jr
Former member of the U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command (INSCOM)
Roger
“Fuller and Grossman have crafted a thriller that feels like it’s ripped straight from tomorrow’s headlines. The tension between Russia, China, and the U.S. adds an extra layer of realism that makes this book hard to put down. Every chapter raises the stakes, whether it’s an assassination attempt or an international crisis. Dan Reilly is the kind of protagonist you root for—sharp, resourceful, and always two steps ahead. If you love espionage and high-stakes drama, this book delivers in every way.”
Roger
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
“Put the Do Not Disturb placard on your door and settle into the latest thriller in the RED HOTEL series, RED CHAOS. And trust me, chaos is ready to break out in Fuller and Grossman’s most timely novel yet! This team of masterful authors race us through one heart-pounding scene to another with prescient vision of the world as it is and things to come. Trust me, RED CHAOS delivers as a page-turning thriller that also waves a red flag at real geo-political issues we better pay attention to now!”
Roger DowFormer President & CEO U.S. Travel Association
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
Joan E
“This top-notch thriller, third in the authors’ Red Hotel series, works well as a stand-alone for readers new to the series. Well-drawn, believable characters, an impressive [although a bit terrifying in its realism] plot, and heart-stopping action all work together to pull the reader into the telling of the tale from the outset. Taking advantage of the precariousness of the current world situation, the unfolding story is frighteningly realistic. Back-office scheming in Washington adds to the realism; the compelling tale is replete with real-world implications. Suspenseful, electrifying, and alarming, the formidable tale is one readers will find impossible to set aside before turning the final page. Don’t miss this one.”
Joan E
WILLIAM CARWILE
“I’ve been engaged in national and homeland security for over 45 years, I seldom read fiction. When I do, it is historical fiction. It most often provides opportunities to learn interesting facts in an enjoyable way. While RED CHAOS is not an historical novel, given today’s news, it affords the reader an extremely compelling, most realistic and fast paced story. In crafting this riveting read, Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman have written a thriller that reflects their impressive knowledge of today’s strategic global dynamics. But they must be seen as prescient given the events happening at this moment: The real-world implications of climate change on global trade and national security, and the fragility of the world’s avenues for commerce. RED CHAOS is a timely must read for those seeking a book that is both stimulating and eye- opening.”
William CarwileColonel, US Army (Ret), Former Associate Administrator, FEMA
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
Doug Muldoon
“It doesn’t get better than RED DECEPTION for weaving true insider business and anti-terrorism experience into a heart-pumping international thriller! Ed Fuller has been there. Done it. Lived it. I’ve read all his books, and now his latest collaboration with Gary Grossman exposes more of his world and the dangers that lurk just below the surface. A political reality thriller of the highest caliber.”
Doug Muldoon
Chief of Police (Ret.), Palm Bay, Florida
2013 President FBI National Academy Associates
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
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”
Publishers Weekly
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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Edward Bradstreet
“RED DECEPTION provides an in-depth and realistic ground level view of the type of asymmetric Nation-state sponsored threats faced by the Agencies tasked with protecting the United States both domestically and abroad. Thoroughly researched with thrilling pacing, it follows a worst case scenario with the resulting fallout and a complex investigation that unfolds all over the Globe.”
Edward Bradstreet
Special Agent- Department of Homeland Security
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)
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
W. G. Griffiths
“WARNING: Read RED HOTEL with your back to the wall and keep an eye on everyone entering your immediate space. It’s a must-read thriller that weaves boots-on-the-ground experience with comet-paced, down-to-the-marrow storytelling. Ed Fuller and Gary Grossman deliver page after page, and RED HOTEL brings it on!”
W. G. Griffiths
Best-selling author, Methuselah’s Pillar, Driven
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
Allen Orlob
“I’ve spent my career traveling to global hotspots, but nothing prepared for the adrenaline rush I would get reading Red Ultimatum! Fuller and Grossman have driven the needle straight up in their latest book in the Red Hotel series that will transport you around the world. Be sure to set aside plenty of time when you begin because you won’t be able to set Red Ultimatum down! With Grossman at his side, this book doesn’t just come from Fuller’s imagination — it directly from his experience. Absolutely captivating!”
Allen Orlob
International Security Consultant, Founder & CEO, Orlob Group
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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
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.)
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
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
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
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