{{Short description|American author and screenwriter}} {{Infobox writer | name = Jon Land | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = <!--{{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}}--> | birth_place = United States | occupation = Director, producer, writer, author | language = English | nationality = American | genre = Thrillers, screenwriting | other_names = | known_for = }}
'''Jon Land''' is an American author of thriller novels.
His books include the Caitlin Strong novels about a fifth-generation Texas ranger,<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/us/orphans-drug-wars-and-other-mysteries.html?_r=0 "Orphans, Drug Wars and Other Mysteries"], Christopher Kelly, ''The New York Times'', July 13, 2013.</ref> and the Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea books, about a Palestinian detective and chief inspector of the Israeli police.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/16/reviews/000416.16crimet.html Crime], Marilyn Stasio, ''The New York Times'', April 16, 2000.</ref>
He is an emeritus board member and currently sits on the marketing committee for the International Thriller Writers.<ref>[http://thrillerwriters.org/about-itw/officers-and-committees/ Officers and Committees], International Thriller Writers, accessed September 6, 2014.</ref>
He was a screenwriter for the film ''Dirty Deeds''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140911220734/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/329718/Dirty-Deeds/credits Dirty Deeds (2005)], ''The New York Times'', accessed September 6, 2014.</ref>
==Books== ===Caitlin Strong=== #''Strong Enough to Die'', Forge Books, 2009 #''Strong Justice'', Forge Books, 2010 #''Strong at the Break'', Forge Books, 2011 #''Strong Vengeance'', Forge Books, 2012 #''Strong Rain Falling'', Forge Books, 2013 #''Strong Darkness'', Forge Books, 2014 #''Strong Light of Day'', Forge Books, 2015 #''Strong Cold Dead'', Forge Books, 2016 #''Strong to the Bone'', Forge Books, 2017 #''Strong as Steel'', Forge Books, 2019 #''Strong from the Heart'', Forge Books, 2020
===Ben Kamal and Danielle Barnea=== #''The Walls of Jericho'', Forge Books, 1997 #''The Pillars of Solomon'', Forge Books, 1999 #''A Walk in the Darkness'', Forge Books, 2000 #''Keepers of the Gate'', Forge Books, 2001 #''Blood Diamonds'', Forge Books, 2002 #''The Blue Widows'', Forge Books, 2003 #''The Last Prophecy'', Forge Books, 2004
===Blaine McCracken=== #''The Omega Command'', Fawcett, 1986 #''The Alpha Deception'', Fawcett, 1987 #''The Gamma Option'', Fawcett, 1989 #''The Omicron Legion'', Fawcett, 1991 #''The Vengeance of the Tau'', Fawcett, 1993 #''Day of the Delphi'', Tor Books, 1993 #''Kingdom of the Seven'', Forge Books, 1994 #''The Fires of Midnight'', Forge Books, 1996 #''Dead Simple'', Forge Books, 1998 #''Pandora's Temple'', Open Road Media, 2012 #''The Tenth Circle'', Open Road Media, 2013
===Jared Kimberlain=== #''The Eighth Trumpet'', Fawcett, 1989 #''The Ninth Dominion'', Fawcett, 1991
===Michael Tiranno=== #''The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending'', Forge Books, 2008 #''Black Scorpion the Tyrant Reborn'', Forge Books, 2015
===''Murder, She Wrote''=== *''Murder She Wrote - A Date with Murder'', co-written with Donald Bain, Berkley, 2018 *''Murder, She Wrote - Manuscript for Murder'', Berkley, November 2018 *''Murder, She Wrote - Murder in Red'', Berkley, 2019 * ''Murder, She Wrote: A Time for Murder'', Berkley, November 2019 {{ISBN|978-1984804303}} * ''Murder, She Wrote: The Murder of Twelve'', Berkley, May 2020 {{ISBN|978-1984804334}} * ''Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season'', Berkley, November 2020
=== The Rising === Written with Heather Graham
# ''The Rising'', 2017 # ''Blood Moon'', Tor Books, 2022
===Other Fiction=== *''The Doomsday Spiral'', Zebra, 1983 *''Vortex'', Zebra, 1984 *''The Lucifer Directive'', Zebra, 1984 *''Labyrinth'', Fawcett, 1985 *''The Council of Ten, Fawcett, 1987 '' *''The Valhalla Testament'', Fawcett, 1990 *''Hope Mountain'', Forge Books, 1998 *''Dolphin Key'', Forge Books, 1999 *''Dark Light: Dawn'', Forge Books, 2017 *''Margaret Truman's Murder on the Metro'', Forge Books, 2021
=== Nonfiction === *''Betrayal: Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought to Bring Him Down'', co-written with Robert Fitzpatrick, Forge Books, 2012 *''Takedown: A Small-Town Cop's Battle Against the Hells Angels and the Nation's Biggest Drug Gang'', with Jeff Buck and Lindsay Preston, Forge Books, 2016
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{official website|http://www.jonlandbooks.com/}} *{{IMDb name|1633127}} *[http://www.blogtalkradio.com/modernsignedbooks/2015/11/02/interview-with-jon-land Modern Signed Books BlogTalkRadio Interview with Rodger Nichols November 2015] *[http://www.blogtalkradio.com/modernsignedbooks/2016/03/27/best-selling-author-jon-land-shares-his-newest-book-takedown Modern Signed Books BlogTalkRadio Interview about Takedown with Rodger Nichols April 2016]
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