_DavidMorrell

Award-winning author of 32 books, including First Blood, which introduced the world to Rambo. 18 million copies in print translated into 30 languages.

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“Morrell brings England to vibrant life, his characters feel so incredibly real, and you keep guessing at the killer’s identity but keep guessing wrong... Agatha Christie, eat your heart out.”
— Acclaimed Western novelist, Johnny D. Boggs
https://t.co/z7UXYzlHjx

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@leonard_apa There are some not-terrible-looking pirated versions a available on dvd. Also someone told me that it's also available for free on YouTube.

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My spy thriller BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE is filled w/authentic CIA history & tradecraft. I based the mysterious man Eliot on real CIA counter-espionage master James Jesus Angleton—a friend of Kim Philby (of the notorious Cambridge Five) and later his enemy.
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@ChristianLindke I visited Boise once for a conference. Enjoyed being there.

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@cdbiehl80 Angleton is a fictional version of a real counter-espionage master. The FBI agent has a real counterpart. So does the orphanage.

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@skullsnflames76 @joelansdale Brian, not sure If I mentioned the WRITING page of my website https://t.co/yoJSriYdZe, which has free downloadable writing essays plus a video of a one-hour talk I have to the Southwest Writers group.

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@HashtagSpiruli @Shawn_Chesser @AtriaMysteryBus @JackCarrUSA Jack and I sometimes talk about doing a book together, but we can't find a project that mutually suits us.

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@joelansdale Same here. :)

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@SheilaFelder3 I love research. When I can, I incorporate as many actual details as I can. The orphanage in the novel is based on a real one also.

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@JohnTures2 Yes, and then suspicion turned toward him as being the mole. I used it as a plot element in my Brotherhood of the Rose. That character's FBI nemesis also has a real-life counterpart,

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Deadline takes a hard look at where A.I. currently stands in Hollywood, reviewing “A.I. on the Lot,” a conference that started in 2023 with 600 attendees and has grown to a two-day event in 2026, with some 2,500 attendees on Amazon’s Culver City lot.
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I love music as much as I love movies and books. The 20 essays in my collection, STARS IN MY EYES: My Love Affair with Books, Movies, And Music, include profiles of Frank Sinatra, Nelson Riddle, and Bobby Darin. Available as an e-book and audio book.
https://t.co/QxZWpXub7b

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@Shawn_Chesser You're very kind. I'm somehow reminded of something a film executive once said to me. "Just remember, David, nobody lasts forever."

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@cdbiehl80 Thanks! BOTR was one of the first to blend the strengths of the UK and US spy novel traditions (authentic spy craft and action). Until then, those elements had mostly been separate. The novel influenced the genre.

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@JohnTures2 The first audio book of BTOR by Brilliance Audio had music, a narrator, and actors, like a radio play. I don't think it's available now.

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@JohnTures2 It's been too long since I saw THE GOOD SHEPHERD. Angleton, the head of CIA counter-espionage, was suspected by some of being a Soviet mole, a la Kim Philip in MI 6. I took my fictional version in that direction.

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@SheilaFelder3 Thanks. It was on e of the first spy novels to blend the strength of the UK spy novel (authentic spycraft) with the strength of the US spy novel (action). Until then, those elements had mostly been separate,

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@joelansdale Hi, Joe!

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@leonard_apa Hi, Lenny. There wasn't a full-length dvd of BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE NBC miniseries that I'm aware of, but therefore are pirated copies for sale on the internet. The trick is to make sure it's full length. A VHS tape reduced the 4 hours to 2.

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@BillJordanVO Hi, Bill. Yes, Romulus calling Remus.

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I’m a huge fan of Stephen Sondheim so his new biography, STEPHEN SONDHEIM: Art Isn’t Easy, by Daniel Okrent, is on my summer reading list. “The book is brimming with delicious incident,” writes Emma Brockes in this rave review for The Guardian.
https://t.co/9cEo4GGzDV