Meet Joe Goldberg

 
 

Background: Joe Goldberg has been a CIA covert action officer, corporate intelligence director, international political consultant, and currently is a college instructor and writer.

His work at the CIA garnered three Exceptional Performance Awards. In the private sector, as leader of Corporate Intelligence at Motorola, Joe received the Meritorious Award recognizing a single individual who has made significant contributions to the intelligence profession. He holds degrees in Political Science and Communications from the University of Iowa.

During 2014, Joe self-published the novel Secret Wars: An Espionage Story, with sales of nearly 9,000 print and e-book copies. It was a finalist in both the fiction and historical fiction categories of the Independent Author Network awards.

He has a passion for writing, US history, Jimmy Buffett, the Iowa Hawkeyes, and his family.

Latest Book: The Spy Devils will be published May 26, 2021 in print and ebook (summary, reviews and links to purchase). Audiobook will follow soon.

Upcoming Book News: The second in the series, Rebellious Son, will be later this year, or early 2022.

Authors That Influenced You: John Le Carre, Frederick Forsyth, Arthur Conan Doyle and Alexander Dumas.

Books/Authors You Would Recommend: Count of Monte Cristo, Treasure Island, Catch-22 and To Kill a Mockingbird. Greg Hurwitz, Don Winslow and Ben Mcintyre.

Favorite Indie Bookstore: Town House Books in St. Charles, Illinois; Prairie Path Books in Wheaton, Illinois; and The Bookstore of Glen Ellyn in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.  

Charities: The mission of the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America (AFA) is to provide support, services and education to individuals, families and caregivers affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias nationwide, and fund research for better treatment and a cure.

How To Contact Joe: Email, Website, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

The Spy Devils

 
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A deadly case. An international operative. When a mission turns personal, who will make it out alive?

Trowbridge ‘Bridger’ Hall was raised to be a spy. Leading a highly trained team of covert agents, he’s loyal to his squad and his country. But when his infamous CIA controller and mother assigns his crew an unusual off-books operation, his finely tuned senses scream danger.

Hunting a stolen briefcase across the world, his instincts proven lethally correct when one of his men ends up dead. And with potentially ruthless maternal betrayal and treacherous enemies closing in, it’s play or be played in a vicious game of death…

Can he crack the conspiracy before it costs his life?

The Spy Devils is the high-octane first tale in The Spy Devils thriller series. If you like pulse-pounding espionage, explosive action, and insidious double-crosses, then you’ll love Joe Goldberg’s page-turning story.

Secret Wars

Secret Wars: An Espionage Story is a suspenseful glimpse into the shadowy world of the CIA, where deceivers become the deceived and the consequences are life or death. It’s a clandestine world where intricate networks of people fight a complex battle to keep the world safe from terrorism.

When terrorists funded by the Libyan government strike airports in Rome and Vienna in 1985, the CIA enlists top propaganda expert Mike Garnett to help recruit a high-ranking Libyan official, Foreign Minister Abdallah Mukhtar, to work for the CIA. As violence escalates between the US military and terrorists based in Libya, Garnett utilizes CIA assets in Hollywood to produce a propaganda video designed to convince Mukhtar he was betrayed by his own regime. Garnett’s plan works—but goes sideways when it motivates the Libyan official to do something Garnett didn’t even consider.

Sharp and insightful, Secret Wars is a thrilling tale of deception, betrayal, and patriotism—and Garnett soon learns they’re not as black and white as they seem when he’s forced to reevaluate the true nature of the business of deception.

For fans of Tom Clancy, David Ignatius, and Frederick Forsyth, Secret Wars is a fictional thriller set against the backdrop of historical events. Meticulously researched, it pulls from the author’s personal experiences as a member of the CIA.

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