Archive for the ‘road thriller’ Category

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.

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

Interview with The Action Elite on my new novel STOPPING POWER

Wednesday, December 8th, 2021

Read the full interview at: https://theactionelite.com/eric-red-talks-his-new-novel-stopping-power/

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.

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!

Book cover reveal for my new thriller novel STOPPING POWER, now available for pre-order.

Monday, September 27th, 2021

Excited to unveil the cover for my brand new thriller novel STOPPING POWER! The artwork is by the amazing John Gallagher. The book will be published in trade paperback and Kindle editions on December 3rd by Seidelman & Company. It is available for pre-order from the publisher or on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2XVuvzn

The publisher’s description is “Devoted mother Stephanie Power is on a road trip in Houston, Texas with her teenage daughter, Libby. They stop at a gas station to refuel, and when Stephanie comes back from paying, she finds her daughter and their RV have suddenly vanished. Ilsa Bakke, a dangerous female bank robber on the run, just pulled an armored car heist that netted 60 million dollars in bearer bonds. She murdered her own gang, escaping in a getaway car with the Texas cops hot on her tail. She switched out her car with the mother’s at the gas station and kidnapped Libby, leaving her getaway car with the keys in it. Stephanie gets a call from Ilsa on her cell, ordering her to get into the bank robber’s getaway car and drive on the highway at high speed and keep driving or Ilsa will kill Libby – if Stephanie stops or gets caught by the cops, her daughter is dead – if she stays alive and uncaptured for one hour, Ilsa promises to release Libby safely. The desperate mother has no choice, jumping in the getaway car and leading police on a high-speed chase, the female bank robber using her as a decoy for the cops while she makes her escape in the opposite direction with Libby and the stolen loot. The game of automative cat-and-mouse shifts into high gear as Stephanie Power drives for her daughter’s life, struggling to stay alive and elude the cops, knowing she must somehow catch up to the RV with Libby and Ilsa so she can rescue her kid and take down the real perpetrator the police are after.”

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

My novel WHITE KNUCKLE is soon to be a major motion picture.

Thursday, August 12th, 2021

My novel WHITE KNUCKLE is now a movie starring Gina Carano produced by Dallas Sonnier that begins filming soon. I wrote the screenplay and am executive producing with Tony Timpone. This is the first novel of mine to make the book-to-film leap. Production starts this fall filming across the USA. I’m incredibly excited to be working with such an amazing team!
For further details about the film go to Deadline Hollywood at: https://bit.ly/3iElX7d

Three of my best novels are back in print!

Saturday, February 27th, 2021

I’m thrilled to announce three of my novels that have been out of print have found an excellent new publisher and later this year will be re-released in fine-quality trade paperback editions and Kindle editions available internationally. The books will feature brand new cover art by my friend the brilliantly talented illustrator, John Gallagher.

More to come…