Lawrence de Maria

“A Lawrence De Maria title gives you more bang for your buck than just about anything in the book marketplace today.” (FLORIDA WEEKLY)\n\nFollowing a tour of duty in the U.S. Marines, Lawrence De Maria became an award-winning crime and financial reporter, earning a Pulitzer Prize nomination at The New York Times. During his career as a journalist, De Maria met or covered some of the nation's most-notorious criminals in government, the Mob and Wall Street. He was widely credited and quoted by the international media for being one of the first to expose the multi-billion-dollar Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme. \n\nHis fiction writing, grounded in real-life experience, is strongly influenced by Ian Fleming, Robert B. Parker, Ed McBain, P.D. James and John D. MacDonald. \n\nDe Maria has created three unique series of thrillers and mysteries featuring two private investigators, Jake Scarne and Alton Rhode, and a C.I.A. agent/assassin, Cole Sudden.\n\nThe novels often have an international flavor, and occasionally delve into high technology and science. Recurring characters and strong love stories are also hallmarks of the author's work.\n\nAll three series have been praised for their grit, humor and character development:\n\n“If you like strong characterizations, great dialogue and surprises, Pulitzer-nominee Lawrence De Maria’s thrillers and mysteries are in a class by themselves.” – JOHN CRUDELE (New York Post)\n\n“While De Maria may have been an award-winning financial reporter, he's an awfully good fiction writer as well.” (NAPLES DAILY NEWS); “What is really almost beyond belief is how easily De Maria has transitioned from the dry world of financial reporting to the wild and lavish world of novel writing.” (COLLIER CITIZEN); “A master of thriller dialogue.” (WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BOOKS)\n \n\n\n