A gigantic thankyou to blogger/reviewer Barbara Vitelli for helping me spread the word about my writing career and two crime fiction novels — Deadly Fare and Blood Sons.
https://bvitelli2002.wordpress.com/2018/10/11/whos-that-indie-author-david-liscio/
Read my article about it in the January 2023 issue of SAILING Magazine.
https://sailingmagazine.net/article-2478-cc-34%252B.html
Rob Ball’s C&C 34+
A new 5-STAR review of BLOOD SONS popped up this morning on Amazon. What a great way to start a long weekend!
If you haven't read it, BLOOD SONS is a mafia saga with loads of action and adventure. It's the second in a three-book series featuring special operative Hannah Summers.
BLOOD SONS is preceded by the Boston-based serial-killer thriller DEADLY FARE and followed by PACIFIC POISON, a story about fighting against ruthless Japanese yakuza gangsters. All three novels are available on Amazon in ebook and paperback.
Here's the Amazon link to BLOOD SONS: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sons-Thriller-David-Liscio-ebook/dp/B07DD8LV2F/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3R9E2IME6D19I&keywords=Blood+sons+liscio&qid=1642261911&sprefix=blood+sons+liscio%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-1
It was so uplifting to meet new readers over the weekend who attended the annual Christmas Fair in the small town of Nahant, Massachusetts where I live and left with copies of my books in their shopping bags.
Everyone wore masks, but I'm presuming they were smiling!
Here are the links:
DEADLY FARE
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly.../dp/0997424702/ref=sr_1_2...
BLOOD SONS
https://www.amazon.com/Blood.../dp/B07DD8LV2F/ref=sr_1_1...
PACIFIC POISON
https://www.amazon.com/Pacifi.../dp/B089Y5KWXN/ref=sr_1_1...
Sending out a hugh THANK YOU to everyone who bought my books yesterday at the Christmas Fair in Nahant, Massachusetts. It makes me happy to know friends, neighbors, and strangers are reading the Hannah Summers Series.
Some of you who visited the fair were disappointed because Deadly Fare quickly sold out, but that novel like the two others are available on Amazon in ebook and paperback.
I'll gladly sign any copies you order from Amazon. Just contact me through my website. And next time we meet, hopefully we'll no longer need masks!
Here are the links:
DEADLY FARE
BLOOD SONS
PACIFIC POISON
My Japanese yakuza thriller Pacific Poison is FREE to download from Amazon today and tomorrow. It is Book No. 3 in the Hannah Summers series but can be read as a stand alone.
Three days from now my Japanese underworld thriller Pacific Poison can be downloaded from Amazon for FREE. It's a two-day giveaway -- Thursday, September 30 and Friday, October 1. Just go to Amazon, click on the book, and it'll be delivered to your Kindle or other mobile device. The cover was designed by oneclickcovers.com so in this case you can definitely judge a book by its cover. #PacificPoison
Exclusively on September 30 and October 1, my Japanese yakuza underworld novel Pacific Poison can be downloaded for free on Amazon. It's book No. 3 in the popular Hannah Summers series. Action, adventure and romance. No contest. Strictly a giveaway so push the button and read it.
PACIFIC POISON, my third crime fiction/action adventure novel, is the book critics have called “a riptide ride of action, romance and suspense.
Pacific Poison is available on Amazon in ebook and paperback.
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Tomorrow is the last day of March 2021. At the end of each month, writers like me tend to look back at the online statistics to see if anyone is reading their books.
Well, March certainly ranks as an anomaly. My three novels found their way into the hands and minds of more readers in India and the UK than in the United States.
Readers in India are enjoying my books.
Personally, I'll never forget the sight and sounds made by a Tasmanian Devil as my guide poked a stick into the hollow of an ancient tree. As my camera clicked away, the creature screamed in a pitch I'd never heard, but now quite understand.
When a new book gets released, it's not so unimaginable that the author gets caught up in the excitement of promoting it, and, in turn, forgetting about previously-published work.
That's what happened to me this week, while telling the world about Pacific Poison, my new yakuza Japanese underworld thriller.
Amid telling readers to give Pacific Poison a try on Amazon in ebook or paperback, I received a five-star review for Blood Sons, my New England mafia saga. It was such a good feeling that I immediately wanted to share.
I'm posting the review along with links to where readers can get a copy of Blood Sons. If you end up reading it, please leave a review on Amazon.
AMAZON US → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DD8LV2F/
AMAZON UK → https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DD8LV2F/
AMAZON CA → https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07DD8LV2F/
AMAZON AU → https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07DD8LV2F/
Seventy-five years ago this August the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island in the Pacific Ocean and dropped its atomic payload on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It marked the first time in the history of mankind that such a weapon was used.
I visited Tinian while on a photojournalism assignment several years ago. The concrete runways were still visible though overgrown with vegetation on which goats grazed. Long and flat, Tinian had proved the ideal airstrip from which to launch the heavy Superfortress bomber. On Aug. 6, 1945, the single bomb destroyed nearly the entire city and brought an end to the war with Japan.
The Enola Gay was named after the mother of the B-29 pilot, Col. Paul Tibbets. The bomb was code-named Little Boy.
Perhaps due to its dark place in history, Tinian possessed an unsettling vibe. I included Tinian as a setting in my newly-released novel, the yakuza Japanese underworld thriller Pacific Poison.
Pacific Poison is racking up five-star reviews on Amazon where it's available in ebook and paperback.
Here are the links:
US Amazon
UK Amazon
#yakuzathriller #PacificPoison #crimefiction #yakuza #DavidLiscio #Japanesemobsters #Internationalreviews #Hiroshima #EnolaGay #Tinian #Atomicbomb
OMG! Look at this! A big box just arrived in the mail. What could possibly be in it? Oh, this is so exciting. It appears to be filled with copies of novels written by the author who lives in my house and feeds me.
I'm so thrilled to start reading these three action-packed thrillers. If you'd like a copy, Deadly Fare, Blood Sons, and Pacific Poison, are all available on Amazon in ebook or paperback.
Here's the Amazon link to Pacific Poison -- a yakuza Japanese underworld thriller, which was released this summer and is racking up five-star reviews.
Amazon US
Amazon UK
#LiteraryCat #PacificPoison #DeadlyFare #BloodSons #BoxofBooksArrives
If you have a tattoo and it was applied with an electric ink gun, you are not yakuza. In Japan's underworld, the yakuza take pride in having the ink pushed under their skin by hand with steel or bamboo needles.
Several years ago, while on a photojournalism assignment, I ended up talking to a yakuza on Saipan Island, I unknowingly insulted him. I had praised his intricate mosaic of body tattoos and mentioned the ink gun process was probably painful. His face grew stern and he turned away. His girlfriend explained that no self-respecting yakuza would get a tattoo applied in such a way. As it turned out, this particular yakuza had his tattoos applied by hand with whale bone.
You can read more about the yakuza in my new Japanese underworld thriller Pacific Poison, available on Amazon in ebook or paperback.
Here’s the link:
https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Poison-Japanese-Underworld-Thriller/dp/0997424753/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia-wc-nc-drs1_0?cv_ct_cx=pacific+poison&dchild=1&keywords=pacific+poison&pd_rd_i=0997424753&pd_rd_r=d59d2e40-2824-4da6-91d7-225a7a0ba71c&pd_rd_w=DVy8V&pd_rd_wg=XeJ6m&pf_rd_p=43f4b3f0-0b04-46ba-8a08-2e851d035e17&pf_rd_r=ZXAVKJZ7SQPACGPJ13AF&psc=1&qid=1595242719&s=digital-text&sr=1-1-f3947b35-9c59-4d7a-9603-b751e6eed25b
Writing fiction requires a lot more than sitting around making things up. If a story is to sound authentic, hours and hours of research must be part of the process.
Today the research I conducted for my latest novel, the yakuza Japanese underworld thriller Pacific Poison, is showcased on crime writer Sue Coletta's Murder Blog.
I hope you'll take a look.
https://www.suecoletta.com/writing-yakuza-underworld-thriller/
#yakuzathriller #japaneseunderworld #writetips #writingtips #DeadlyFare #BloodSons #PacificPoison #fugu #crimefiction
The research that went into the writing of Pacific Poison took two years. Readers, reviewers, and book bloggers are praising the story as authentic.
In case you missed it earlier this week, super-blogger Susan Hampson, whose BOOKS FROM DUSK TILL DAWN page is ranked highly among book reviewers, gave the thumbs up to my latest novel, Pacific Poison.
Here’s the link:
The latest 5-star review for my new yakuza Japanese underworld thriller PACIFIC POISON, calls it "a riptide ride of action, romance and suspense."
You can read it for yourself by clicking on the review below.
PACIFIC POISON is the third book in the Hannah Summers series but can be read as a standalone. It's free to Kindle Unlimited members. It is preceded by the serial-killer thriller Deadly Fare (2016) and the mob saga Blood Sons (2018).
IN THE JAPANESE UNDERWORLD OF DRUGS, GUNS, AND CRIME… ONE WOMAN HOLDS THE KEY TO TAKING DOWN AN EMPIRE.
CIA officer Hannah Summers is dispatched to the South Pacific with one simple objective: discover the source of heroin being trafficked to the United States, and destroy it before another shipment hits the streets of San Francisco.
But on the coral island of Saipan, the yakuza — powerful, elaborately-tattooed Japanese gangsters — have no intention of allowing Hannah and her partners to interfere with business.
With bodies beginning to pile up on the tiny island and tensions mounting between yakuza and local law enforcement, it could be the perfect opportunity for a plucky, blonde undercover agent to infiltrate Orochi “Big Snake” Tanaka’s organization.
Or, it could prove a fatal mistake…
Here are the Amazon links to the ebook and paperback:
Amazon UK: Pacific Poison
Amazon UK: Pacific Poison
Fnd out more about me and my books via the links below:
Website: https://www.davidliscio.com
Twitter: @DavidLiscio
Facebook: author David Liscio
Follow on Instagram at DavidLiscioAuthor
#yakuzathriller #HannahSummers #Japaneseunderworld #PacificPoison
When a review like this gets posted on Amazon, I actually think it's OK that I became a writer.
"David Liscio is a gifted author who pays generous attention to even the smallest of details. A visual storyteller, Liscio seamlessly creates compelling characters then gives them unique voices while simultaneously breathing life into the landscapes surrounding them.
"This trait stands him well in the thrilling Pacific Poison, another gift to his fans. For his third effort, Liscio takes his heroes across the globe to the Far East, as the title belies, and styles an intricate mosaic of international crime and espionage set against lushly exotic and frequently historic locales.
"Liscio draws from personal experience as a reporter along the drug trail in the Orient as he reveals an always dangerous and sometimes blood-drenched Asian netherworld riddled with colorful characters, vicious villains and unlikely heroes, chock full of crackling dialogue and, as always, that dash of romance Liscio’s readers are accustomed to.
"Liscio, author of two of the books most recommended by me in the last decade, Deadly Fare and Blood Sons, once again gets two thumbs way up for this page-turner. I can’t wait to tell my friends about Pacific Poison."
---Amazon review by Steve Flynn.
PACIFIC POISON is the third book in the Hannah Summers series but can be read as a standalone. It's free to Kindle Unlimited members. It is preceded by the serial-killer thriller Deadly Fare (2016) and the mob saga Blood Sons (2018).
IN THE JAPANESE UNDERWORLD OF DRUGS, GUNS, AND CRIME… ONE WOMAN HOLDS THE KEY TO TAKING DOWN AN EMPIRE.
CIA officer Hannah Summers is dispatched to the South Pacific with one simple objective: discover the source of heroin being trafficked to the United States, and destroy it before another shipment hits the streets of San Francisco.
But on the coral island of Saipan, the yakuza — powerful, elaborately-tattooed Japanese gangsters — have no intention of allowing Hannah and her partners to interfere with business.
With bodies beginning to pile up on the tiny island and tensions mounting between yakuza and local law enforcement, it could be the perfect opportunity for a plucky, blonde undercover agent to infiltrate Orochi “Big Snake” Tanaka’s organization.
Or, it could prove a fatal mistake…
Here's the Amazon link to the ebook and paperback:
Find out more about me and my books via the links below:
Website: https://www.davidliscio.com
Twitter: @DavidLiscio
Facebook: author David Liscio
Follow on Instagram at DavidLiscioAuthor
#yakuzathriller #HannahSummers #Japaneseunderworld #PacificPoison #yakuza #Japaneseorganizedcrime
Book No. 3 in the Hannah Summers series
Somehow holding a paperback copy of Pacific Poison in my hands makes it seem more real. I know that doesn’t make sense, but it’s the way I feel. Scout began reading it immediately.
