As previously announced
back in April, SMFS Member Alan Orloff was a 2019 Thriller Award Finalist. His
book, Pray for the Innocent, was a finalist nominee in the “Best
E-Book Original Novel Category.” Saturday evening, at Thrillerfest XIV in New
York City, Mr. Orloff was announced as the winner by the International Thriller
Writers. We of the SMFS congratulate Mr.
Orloff on his latest award winning achievement.
Can former best-selling
novelist Mathias King—now a rumpled, grizzled English professor—save America
from a terrorist of his own making? In the shadow of the Pentagon, a secret DoD
brain research experiment goes terribly wrong, and an ex-Special Ops soldier
escapes, believing he is Viktor Dragunov, the Russian operative from the 80’s
thriller novel, Attack on America. To capture him, the Feds turn to the person
uniquely qualified to predict his next moves, the man who created the fictional
character, best-selling author Mathias King. Now a reclusive English professor,
King is reluctant to get involved, having sworn off the culture of violence
after a deranged fan murdered his wife. But when innocent people start dying,
King is thrust back into that dark world. With help from his enthusiastic
graduate assistant Emily Phan, King must outsmart his own creation—while
outmaneuvering the cover-up-loving Feds—before Dragunov succeeds in his
hell-bent mission. To destroy America.
