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Excellent Kirkus Review for my novel STOPPING POWER.

Saturday, July 9th, 2022

“A first-rate cast drives this brisk, exhilarating action tale.  Readers will bask in the taut action scenes and blistering final act.” – Kirkus Reviews.

Read the full review at: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/eric-red/stopping-power-the-collected-novels-of-eric-red/

STOPPING POWER book signing at Dark Delicacies Bookstore on Saturday, January 29th at 3:00 PM.

Saturday, January 22nd, 2022

Hey folks, I’ll be doing a book signing of my new kidnap thriller novel STOPPING POWER at Dark Delicacies Bookstore in Burbank next Saturday, January 29th at 3:00 PM! The address is 822 N Hollywood Way, Burbank CA. (818) 556-6660‬. Thanks to my friends Del and Sue Howison, who run the best horror bookstore in the U.S.

AMFM Magazine TV interview on my new novel STOPPING POWER.

Friday, January 14th, 2022

Big thanks to Paul Salfen for the AMFM Magazine TV interview on my new novel, STOPPING POWER!
Watch the video interview at: https://bit.ly/31Xv4dJ

Article on my new novel STOPPING POWER in the January issue of the International Thriller Writers Organization ITW magazine, The Big Thrill.

Tuesday, January 4th, 2022

Read the full article at: https://bit.ly/3FWMw0S

Rave review from Starburst Magazine for my new thriller novel STOPPING POWER!

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021

“Prolific author and film director Eric Red has previously shown us very memorably that those long open sparsely populated highways just aren’t safe both with his screenplay The Hitcher, filmed with Rutger Hauer in 1986 and more recently with the homicidal trucker in his novel White Knuckle, which is in pre-production at the moment.

Well, put the key in the ignition and rev up, Eric Red takes us on another dizzying, high octane, pedal to the metal thriller. Stopping Power is a gripping thriller that evokes the very best cinematic vehicular mayhem movies. Imagine Vanishing Point, crossed with Speed and the infamous O.J. Simpson car chase and enjoy the wild ride. Stephanie Power is taking a well-deserved break with her teenaged daughter. They’re on a road trip in a luxury motorhome. Pulling up to refuel, Stephanie finds the motorhome and daughter missing. Both have been taken by a desperate and lethal bank robber Ilse Bakke, who demands that Stephanie drive around in her original getaway car, as a decoy for the police while Bakke drives to freedom in the other direction. If Stephanie stops, or is caught by the increasingly trigger-happy police – the daughter dies. Of course, Bakke can see everything on the live TV news feed.

Stopping Power is a rapidly paced page turner from the first paragraph, and is tightly written with a staccato beat that screams for the book to be filmed. This is Red’s uniquely visual writing style – he writes like a film director. An interesting device used to great effect in this book is applying the normal third person narrative for the bulk of the book, but using the first person for the sequences detailing Stephanie’s thoughts and feelings as the main protagonist. But IS she really the main character? Ilse Bakke as the truly psychopathic schizophrenic villain is a memorably disturbing and well drawn character, eliciting both sympathy, repugnance and fear. She is the perfect character foil to test just how far a mother will go to protect her daughter, and to explore the beginnings of Stockholm Syndrome between Bakke and her hostage.

All in all, this is another triumph for Eric Red.

4/5 stars.” – Robin Pierce, Starburst Magazine

The paperback is available in bookstores and on Amazon at amzn.to/3nKcc8V

Kindle edition will be released on December 3rd.

Publication day for my new thriller novel STOPPING POWER!

Monday, November 1st, 2021

Out in trade paperback from Seidelman & Company!  The book is available in bookstores and on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3nKcc8V

Kindle edition will be released on December 3rd.

BODY PARTS – Best Horror Movie You Never Saw on JoBlo Horror Videos

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021

Fantastic YouTube program on my horror thriller BODY PARTS!  Big thanks to Arrow in the Head at JoBlo.com for one of the best pieces anyone has everdone on the movie, in a beautifully edited and narrated episode I was thrilled with.  Check it out!

My road-thriller novel WHITE KNUCKLE now available in Kindle edition.

Thursday, October 14th, 2021

WHITE KNUCKLE is now available in Kindle editions for eBook readers at: https://amzn.to/3jm3k8n

Read the book and see the movie, soon to be filmed starring Gina Carano produced by Dallas Sonnier!

Great review in German magazine Deadline for the new edition of DON’T STAND SO CLOSE from Seidelman & Company.

Saturday, September 11th, 2021

“At first Eric Red’s novel seems like a typical coming of age story, but very quickly it develops into a dark thriller which sucks every reader into it.” – Deadline.

Available at your favorite bookstores or at https://amzn.to/3xlVOOP

My novel WHITE KNUCKLE soon to be a major motion picture starring Gina Carano is back in print.

Saturday, September 4th, 2021

By popular demand, my road-thriller novel WHITE KNUCKLE currently being made as a movie starring Gina Carano is finally back in print in new trade paperback and Kindle Editions from Seidelman & Company.  Read the book that started it all that William Friedkin director of The Exorcist and The French Connection calls “Terrific stuff. Great suspense!”
Available in bookstores or on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/2WNcC5e