About the Author

New York Times best-selling author Lewis Perdue\\\\\\'s twenty published books have sold more than 4 million copies and have been translated into every major language in the world along with more than a dozen other tongues. Of his twenty published books, fifteen are thrillers and the remaining five cover wine, technology, and how porn has driven the technology and business model of the World Wide Web. Perdue studied physics and biology in college and usually works those into his books. He received his B.S. (1972) with distinction from Cornell University and graduated sixth in his class. He has served on the faculties at UCLA and Cornell University, founded four companies including two technology firms, a wine company and a magazine, and been a top aide to a U.S. Senator and a state governor. He has also run political races for Congress, worked as a Washington (D.C) correspondent (Ottaway/Dow-Jones, States News Service), a columnist for Gannett, The Wall Street Journal Online, CBS Marketwatch and TheStreet.Com. He also writes book reviews for Barron\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s. Perdue\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s interests include: Running, mountain biking, backpacking, reading, and home improvement. Among his favorite movies are: The Matrix, MIB, In the Heat of the Night, To Kill a Mockingbird, Enemy of the State, and Pelican Brief. His musical taste (or lack thereof) runs the gamut of: Warren Zevon, Mozart, ZZ Top, Boston, Eagles, Billy Idol, Heart, Queen, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Skip James, and Eric Clapton.

Die By Wire

DIE BY WIRE:
Truth or Fiction? (Yes.)

When guardian sniper Mira Longbow arrives in Amsterdam to take out the head of a global child-smuggling ring, she quickly stumbles across a diabolically creative, high-tech jihad that will bring the West to its knees.

Problem is, she also crosses paths with Jackson Day, an unwanted visitor, and would-be lover from her turbulent past in Iraq. Day is a deadly effective loner assigned to the Army's Asymmetric Warfare Command whose motto (and his) is "Never Fight Fair."

So, when Day shows up to enlist her gift for languages to decipher a tangle of voices recorded of a high-level terror meeting at a remote Iranian safe house, she wants nothing to do with him or his distractions from her mission.

But, after the heat of their first encounter, they put aside their simmering differences when it's clear that Khan Nasiri -- the same wealthy shipping tycoon behind the child bride smuggling operation -- is a terror mastermind who has discovered that every modern fly-by-wire passenger aircraft is a disaster waiting to fall out of the sky.

And Nasiri intends to demonstrate to the world just how easily fly-by-wire can become die-by-wire. Cyber-jihad everywhere, anywhere. Death on demand.
The countdown begins.

And they are the only two people on the planet who can stop it in time.

Die By Wire -- inspired by the real-life story of women snipers who protect innocents in war-torn regions -- brings together a heart-thumping, clock-racing thriller that also tells the shocking true story of the global exploitation of young girls whose plight has been excused by worldwide law enforcement as an acceptable cultural practice.

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Perfect Killer

When a Mississippi civil rights attorney asks a prominent neurosurgeon to help her save the life of a white racist condemned to death for the cold case murder of a black man, he has no idea that he is about to be dragged through a deadly past he thought he had escaped.
Dr. Bradford Stone, “legendary Marine recon operative turned healer and scientist,” makes it his business to find out who’s behind a massive secret plan to turn the drug Xantaeus loose on a reduced but much more effective army in places like Iraq – especially after the love of his life, a black activist in the Mississippi Delta country, is killed by a female sniper involved in the conspiracy.
Stone and the murdered activist’s daughter are credible characters; the plot’s premise stands up to scrutiny; and Perdue brings the Delta geography to vivid life.
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Slatewiper

In Tokyo, a particularly violent and deadly plague has broken out. Inexplicably, it seems as if the virus only uses Koreans as its carrier.

Enter Lara Blackwood, a genetic engineer recruited to fight this virus that somehow piggybacks itself on people with specific genetic characteristics. Ejected from her own company, Lara sees in this investigation her chance to get herself back in the research game, but she doesn’t count on uncovering a genetic weapon of unimaginable power, a weapon that appears to have its origins in her own work.

Like the high-tech medical thrillers of Michael Crichton, this novel deftly combines hard science and narrative panache. Perdue has crafted a story that grips the reader’s imagination: Can this be real? Is it possible for such a weapon to exist?
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Other Sites

Daughter of God, The original art and Vatican conspiracy thriller about religion and the search for the lost Goddess in Christianity.

The Da Vinci Crock This is a blog covering the Random House/Dan Brown plagiarism court case.

Writopia This is a blog covering Dan Brown's various fabrications, boasts and fictional inflation of his life and accomplishments.

The French Paradox and Beyond, The best-selling book on wine and health. The entire text is available free.

Eroticabiz: How Sex Shaped The Internet, The best-selling analysis of the adult industry's role in developing the online world's major technologies: from video streams to payment systems. The entire text is available free.

Books'n Blues, A charity fundraiser that Lew organized in his hometown of Greenwood, Mississippi to make an opportunity to create opportunities in the Mississippi Delta

Browsing all posts in Asides.

Memories And Time – The Beginning Of A New Approach

5/05/13 | 0 Comments

All we are is memories and time. Think about that for a moment while I explain a different approach I am taking with some of my writing. I’ve tried for decades to deal with deep issues … serious things … in the context of my main fiction genre, thrillers. I put the thoughts — and [...]

Radical Egyptian Clerics Seek to Legalise Child Brides

15/11/12 | 0 Comments

Radical Egyptian Clerics Seek to Legalise Child Brides Pedophile sex traffickers are the sorts of perverts that heroine Mira Longbow goes after in Die By Wire

A Veterans Day Thanks To A Hero

12/11/12 | 0 Comments

Click to enlarge. And click that one for full size. A Veteran’s Day salute to my uncle, LTC Buddy Barner, USAF. I dedicated my book Perfect Killer to him and wrote him in as a character before he died. More images here.

David Stone: Superb Writing in Thrillers

28/10/12 | 0 Comments

David Stone is, for my reading taste, one of the best writers on the planet in any genre. His ability to use the best possible words to evoke a mood, describe a character or set a scene just resonates with me … and makes me envious as hell. Below are a few of my favorite [...]

Vonnegut For President

25/10/12 | 0 Comments

Vonnegut for President! Platform: Cat’s Cradle. Slogan (from Chapter 4): “All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.” Clearly a man of his word! He has my vote!

Take THAT! Paul Ryan

14/10/12 | 0 Comments

And the meme goes on! Actual weight 45 pounds (four 10-lb plates plus bar. Since I don’t have those cool House of Reps gym barbells, I must assemble my own from what’s around my garage gym. And … I’m just funnin’ here. This is not an endorsement or a put-down. I’m a registered Democrat who [...]

8 Great Philosophical Questions We’ll Never Answer

1/10/12 | 2 Comments

This blog post on io9 is an awesome one: 8 Great Questions We’ll Never Solve. We’ll never answer them, but there is an existential imperative to keep asking them and to wrestle our own private angels (or demons) for an answer. If you’re an atheist, wrestle because you can prove the answer. Otherwise, wrestle because [...]

Tesla Lives Here … And Edison Lives There (#1 In A Series)

25/09/12 | 0 Comments

Tesla Lives Here Edison Lives There Fluorescents, mercury vapor lamps, neon, modern. Alternating current More heat than light. Energy waster. So yesterday. Read The Tesla Bequest, now a Kindle ebook at at Amazon.

ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY! ICKY!

18/09/12 | 0 Comments

Lots of people just turn away when confronted with the reality of the icky-ness of what an obstetric fistula is. Totally gross. GET OVER IT! And help the 30,000 – 50,000 women who suffer from this EVERY YEAR. Read my last post, (Watch PBS, Help Fight Today’s Primitive Horror Against Women) then … DO IT [...]

Watch PBS, Help Fight Today’s Primitive Horror Against Women

18/09/12 | 0 Comments

The horror of child brides extends far beyond stolen childhoods and includes horrendous injuries and death. As I’ve written recently on the web and in my book Die By Wire, it’s a primitive practice abandoned in the developed world, but perpetuated and justified today by cultural Islamists who insist that Islam’s founder deflowered a young [...]

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