This fourth novel in the James Reece saga centers on a topic I thought a lot about during my time in the SEAL Teams and one I continue to contemplate as an author: what has the enemy learned by watching the United States on the field of battle in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and other hot spots around the globe over the past twenty years at war. For THE DEVIL’S HAND, I wanted to take a breath and put myself in the enemy’s shoes. SAVAGE SON explored the dark side of man through the dynamic of a hunter and hunted. TRUE BELIEVER was a journey of redemption. THE TERMINAL LIST was a story of revenge without constraint. Thank you! Each novel thus far has had a distinct theme. How did you come up with the story idea for this one?Ĭarr: Wow! So humbled.
I absolutely loved this book, and cannot wait for readers to get their hands on it. I gave THE DEVIL’S HAND a perfect, 10/10 rating, which I’ve only ever done a handful of times.
For this interview, I asked him about everything from how he came up with the story idea for The Devil’s Hand to what’s going on with The Terminal List television show starring Chris Pratt ( Avengers: End Game, etc.) as James Reece.Ĭheck out the full Q&A below, then make sure to order your copy of The Devil’s Hand, in stores on April 13th. Obviously, I was pumped to catch up with Jack ahead of his highly anticipated new release, both in our sit-down chat via ThrillerTalk, and a Five Questions piece for TRBS.
(Check out my full review here if you want to know more.) It might be one of the best action thrillers ever written. The Devil’s Hand isn’t just Carr’s best book to date. And while I don’t want to give anything away, I will say one thing. That means expectations were high for Carr coming into 2021. I’ve had the pleasure of covering hundreds of authors over the last seven years, but nobody has exploded onto the scene quite like Carr, who reached the coveted New York Times bestselling status with his third book, last year’s Savage Son.
Carr’s first book, The Terminal List, is widely regarded as one of the best debuts ever, alongside (you guessed it), Flynn’s Term Limits. Heck, Carr even has the same editor that Flynn did, and is with the same publisher. While The Real Book Spy was far from launching back when Flynn took the genre, and the publishing world, by storm in the late 1990s, in many ways, covering Carr feels like what that time period (which also saw careers launched by Daniel Silva and Lee Child, among others) might have been like. If you know me at all or follow me on social media, then you likely know that my all-time very favorite author is the late Vince Flynn, the genius behind the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series (which is now being written by Kyle Mills). One of the coolest things I’ve experienced since I started covering the thriller genre back in 2014, is the rise of Jack Carr.
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