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Chasing the Hill: Not Just Fake Politics
Review, Chasing the Hill By Bayard & Holmes Emmy nominee Brent Roske, Creator and Executive Producer of the new internet TV show, “Chasing the Hill,” has done the impossible. He has created a show...
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No Easy Day, Just an Easy Paycheck
By Intelligence Operative Jay Holmes* As most folks know by now, on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 author “Mark Owen” will release “No Easy Day,” a first hand account of the Osama Bin Laden mission. I have...
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Bayard, Holmes, Movie, No Popcorn – ARGO
By Author Piper Bayard and Intelligence Operative Jay Holmes ARGO movie poster ARGO is a movie thriller based on Operation ARGO, a CIA undertaking lead by CIA employee Tony Mendez to rescue six US...
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The True Story of the D-Day Spies: Double Cross
By Intelligence Operative Jay Holmes* DOUBLE CROSS addresses one of the more complex and important intelligence operations of World War Two. It explains how the UK’s MI-5 Counter Intelligence division...
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Bayard, Holmes, Movie, No Popcorn — SKYFALL
SKYFALL Review By Author Piper Bayard & Intelligence Operative Jay Holmes SKYFALL marks the Golden Anniversary of the Bond series, and it’s raking in the serious gold—for good reason. In this 23rd...
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Weaving Tapestries of Adventure — James Rollins and BLOODLINE
In James Rollins’ BLOODLINE, futuristic science meets ancient mysticism to produce a non-stop thrill ride that will keep readers turning pages into the wee hours and leave them making excuses to their...
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42–The Jackie Robinson Story
By Piper Bayard 42, starring Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, and Nicole Beharie, tells a story of African-American Jackie Robinson’s breakthrough into the world of major league baseball. It covers...
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Susan Spann–Historical Mystery Author or Ninja Conspirator?
By Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes It’s happened again. It starts with a twitch, and then, before you know it, Holmes and I are kidnapping another author and whisking them away to our secret blog prison....
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Rise of the Machines and the WANAMama
By Piper Bayard She has many names–WANAMama, Writerchik, the Death Star–but you may know her as Kristen Lamb. Fiction writer, blogger, and social media maven. I met her just over three years ago on a...
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Bayard, Holmes, Movie, No Popcorn: The Tourist
Holmes and I have always wanted to critique movies so we started with The Tourist. It’s an international crime thriller starring Angelina Jolie as Elise Clifton-Ward and Johnny Depp as Frank Tupelo. We...
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Bayard, Holmes, Movie, No Popcorn: RED
Per a request from our reader, Ellie Ann Soderstrom, Holmes and I sat down together a while back to review the movie, RED. RED is a movie about a retired black-ops CIA agent who puts his old team back...
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In Bruges — Movie Review by Bayard & Holmes
By Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes In Bruges was released in 2008, but it’s a favorite of mine and Holmes’ so we thought we’d share it with you. In Bruges is a drama about two hit men, Ray and Ken, who...
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Cop Killer: A Phenomenal Thriller
Today we welcome two of our favorites to our site–Screenwriter and Best Selling Author Ryne Douglas Pearson and Author/Editor Ellie Ann. Holmes and I both thoroughly enjoyed this book by Ryne, the man...
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Lone Survivor–Real SEALs and Unanswered Questions
By Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes Lone Survivor is a movie about the 2005 Afghanistan mission, Operation Red Wings, in which a four-man team of Navy SEALs was tasked with scouting out Ahmad Shah—a...
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Becoming Josephine — From Carefree Creole to Empress of France
By Piper Bayard In BECOMING JOSEPHINE, Heather Webb eloquently traces the transformation of Rose Tascher, carefree Caribbean island girl, to Empress Josephine, wife of the most powerful man of her...
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Spy Truth & Fiction — The Equalizer Gets Some Things Right
By Piper Bayard The Equalizer is a thriller film by Antoine Fuqua in which an ex-CIA operative must defeat the Russian mob to save his friend. Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall, a widower who has...
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BUGGING OUT — 5 Star Dystopian Fiction
By Piper Bayard Noah Mann delivers a winner of a dystopian thriller with BUGGING OUT. The future is alarmingly possible, the characters are refreshingly real, and the challenges are terrifying in this...
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