Books By Ed Mitchell

I gag on stale, soulless, robotic websites that just try to sell books. Here, I want you to feel you’re visiting with a person sharing triumphs and losses, humor and true feelings. Plus, once in a while, offering advice about life and insights on writing modern-day thrillers that touch your heart and make you think.

Why? Because when I was a child I sat reading fiction on the floor in the local library, I marveled at how authors wove their stories and wished I could talk with them to learn how they mixed magic into their chapters. In today’s world, using the Internet allows that contact to occur.

So, whether you are a youngster or senior, here you can learn how much heart and time it takes me to craft a story that reflects life, stitched together with:

values and ethics,
.. emotions and intellect,
…. caring and disregard,
…… honor and dishonor,
…….. loyalty and treachery,
………. beginnings and endings
………… by leveraging life experiences.

So, please enjoy browsing my four blogs for readers and writers.  Sample a first chapter. Send me any question or comment, and when you need to buy a book as a gift for yourself, for a family member, or for a friend, please consider one from my series.

All Titles are available as an  autographed physical copy or in Kindle format . If you wish an autographed book or Kindle Version click the cover below, then select “Add to Cart” for an autographed physical copy or the “Buy on Amazon” for your eBook Kindle copy.

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Amazon Best Seller – Centurion Witness

4.68 Star Rating“Centurion Witness: A Tale of Resurrection and Redemption represents Christian Biblical fiction at its best . . ." 

Book 1 Gold Rush 2000 – Award Winning Gold Lust Series (Kindle copy is titled Gold Lust).

4.70 Star Rating. "Filthy good to the end. Amazed that this was a first novel from a new author"

Book 2 Gold Raid – Award Winning Gold Lust Series

5.0 Star Rating. "I enjoyed the book thoroughly. Thanks for being an author.”  

Book 3 Gold Fire – Award Winning Gold Lust Series

5.0 Star Rating. “… If you want to get any closer to the battle lines on the War on Terrorism — enlist!”

Book 4 Destiny Relic – Award Winning Gold Lust Series

4.7 Star Rating. "The Destiny Relic WAS a thriller. Kept me guessing til the end."

Book 5 Black Camel – Award Winning Gold Lust Series

4.75 Star Rating. “… a gripping, current-day terrorism thriller with an ultra-realistic plot and characters."

From: Author Ed Mitchell
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My inspiration to write my first fiction story and see it published began on the beach in Monterey, California in 1980. I was a young captain attending the Naval Postgraduate School. On that day I was trying to figure out how Muslim terrorists could talk teenage fighters into committing suicide by blowing themselves up. I concluded that if America ever faced a Muslim commander trained as American soldiers are, like myself, then that would be a very bad day for our country.

I went on to lay out a storyline for a series of thrillers leading up to such an event. That led to releasing my original hardback as Gold Rush 2000. (Released later as a paperback under the title Gold Lust.) After my second thriller Gold Raid was written and published, I was writing the third book where a mastermind would attack a strategic objective in America in order to change the war. He would mass the necessary war material at the needed time and place, and send in a trained tactical team to execute the attack that they had practiced many times before arriving at the objective.

What I theorized became real on September 11th, 2001 when the Trade Towers in New York City were destroyed. That day a set of strategic targets were attacked by a tactical team of 19 men that had trained on aircraft simulators. The plan converted available passenger planes into flying bombs, which were flown into each tower and into the Pentagon. It was a very bad day for America. Osama Bin Laden’s plan to attack the heart of America with a team of suicide bombers succeeded and over 3,000 Americans died.

After the FBI began warning the public to watch out for other attacks, one of which I had in my draft novel, I decided that I could not release that story. I knew too many national vulnerabilities. So I tossed that draft and started a different story, Gold Fire.

I hope you enjoy my Gold Lust series, written by a military officer with expertise stretching from the foxhole into space. Telling a tale about an American soldier who returns from fighting overseas, falls in love and eventually helps stop a nuclear missile attack on America.

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From: Author Ed Mitchell
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The best fiction published in the last two decades has been by first time authors. Examples are: Red October by Clancy, Absolute Power by Baldacci, Cold Mountain by Frazer,  The Horse Whisperer by Evans, as well as Grisham’s first works. These authors applied years of polish to their fresh stories. Like them I’ve spent years learning my craft. Additionally, I labor to gain honest feedback about what works or doesn’t work for the reader in any novel I’m working on. That listening greatly helps me eliminate flaws and produces a captivating story for you. Consequently, I’ve re-written Gold Rush 2000 / Gold Lust, Gold Raid, and Gold Fire, and my latest thriller numerous times to provide memorable characters skirmishing within an interwoven plot with surprising twists and outcomes.

As in real life, aspects of my characters’ personalities emerge over time (across many chapters).

When you read one of my first chapters you will immediately find a main character coping with personal or family dilemmas while striving to achieve their goals.

Their depth continues to be exposed in later chapters.

Implausible events or incredulous behavior by characters makes me stop reading. Therefore, in my thrillers I strive to avoid that by leveraging true-life experiences, as well as achievements, by real people I have observed disagreeing during arduous situations. I adapt and merge those events into the story. Example sources include: planning and executing actual military operations, the thrill of being on a missile launch team, physical fights, boardroom battles about down sizing, technical meetings between government managers and contractors, prospecting and finding my first piece of gold, marriage, divorce, the death of parents, a grandchild’s smile; as well as burying someone I love.

Today, people surf the TV, even the radio as they commute, as well as surf the Internet at work and at home. They seek data and answers quickly and want satisfaction NOW! Like gold, their time is precious. To respond to the desire of today’s reader for quick information, I write short, tight chapters, attempting to make every word, sentence, and paragraph, propel forward the characterization or the plot.

And, like you, I hate a book with a weak or disappointing ending. To avoid that pitfall, I figure out the beginning and ending before I craft all the chapters in between. Plus, I design multiple climatic endings. Two or three times the hero and heroine appear doomed. Hopefully, when you reach those chapters, you will worry: Will they survive?

Thank you for being one of the thoughtful, intelligent, and wise people who take the time to read a book. I hope my first chapter hooks you.

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From: Author Ed Mitchell
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