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Author interview with Tom Doyle  Author bio: Tom Doyle is the author of AMERICAN CRAFTSMEN. He writes science fiction and fantasy in Washington, DC. He has won the WSFA Small Press Award and the Writers of the Future Award.   ----------------------------------------   Hi Tom, welcome over at The Book Plank and for taking your time to answer these few questions for us! TD: Thank you for having me here! BP: First off, could you give us a short introduction as to who Tom Doyle is? What are you hobbies, likes and dislikes? TD: I grew up in Michigan, then went to Harvard for undergrad and Stanford for law and its Grateful Dead concerts. I came to Washington, D.C., to practice with a branch of a Wall Street firm, and they sent me to work in Tokyo for a year and a half. For a while I was working on mortgage-backed securities, but I was long gone before those went south with the global economy. Then, after the turn of t...

The Left-Hand Way by Tom Doyle, American Craftsmen #2 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy meets ancient magic, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance Poe’s Red Death returns, more powerful than ever. Can anyone stop him before he summons an apocalyptic nightmare even worse than himself? In this second book of Tom Doyle’s contemporary fantasy series, the American craftsmen are scattered like bait overseas. What starts as an ordinary liaison mission to London for Major Michael Endicott becomes a desperate chase across Europe, where Endicott is both hunted and hunter. Reluctantly joining him is his minder from MI13, Commander Grace Marlowe, one of Her Majesty’s most lethal magician soldiers, whose family has centuries of justified hostility to the Endicotts. Meanwhile, in Istanbul and Tokyo, Endicott’s comrades, Scherie Rezvani and Dale Morton, are caught in their own battles for survival against hired assassins and a ghost-powered doomsday machine. And in Kiev, Roderick...

American Craftsmen by Tom Doyle  In modern America, two soldiers will fight their way through the magical legacies of Poe and Hawthorne to destroy an undying evil—if they don’t kill each other first. US Army Captain Dale Morton is a magician soldier—a “craftsman.” After a black-ops mission gone wrong, Dale is cursed by a Persian sorcerer and haunted by his good and evil ancestors. Major Michael Endicott, a Puritan craftsman, finds gruesome evidence that the evil Mortons, formerly led by the twins Roderick and Madeline, have returned, and that Dale might be one of them. Dale uncovers treason in the Pentagon’s highest covert ranks. He hunts for his enemies before they can murder him and Scherie, a new friend who knows nothing of his magic. Endicott pursues Dale, divided between his duty to capture a rogue soldier and his desire to protect Dale from his would-be assassins. They will discover that the demonic horrors that have corrupted American magic are not bound by...