IN 2003 THE CALIFORNIA RECALL ELECTION SPARKED AN IDEA WHICH TURNED AGENT OF INFLUENCE FROM A 50 PAGE DEAD END TO A FULL-LENGTH THRILLER. FIND OUT WHY REVIEWERS ARE SAYING THINGS LIKE :
"Agent of Influence is an action-packed mystery/thriller that is certain to entertain." San Francisco Book Review
"There is a great scene from the 1973 Secretariat win at the Derby that is worth the price of admission." Bookreview.com
"This is one roller coaster ride you won't want to get off." -Foreword Clarion Reviews
"I enjoyed this book as much as any Tom Clancy/Vince Flynn/Dan Brown/Ian Fleming novel." - Amazon Review
"Hamilton has written as tightly plotted an international spy story as you are going to find in this genre... If you are into Muslim conspiracy theories, this is a particularly timely book." - MK Turner, Bookreview.com.
Available as full-size paperback or just 3.99 on Kindle. Also available on the Nook, Smashwords.com, and Iuniverse.com
"The gruesome killing of a prize racehorse in Kentucky in 1973; the murder of two tourists on a Las Vegas roller coaster decades later; the naturalization of Nevada Senator Zach Hardin, whose Egyptian childhood is a closed book: Seemingly random events pile up in this thriller faster than potato chips pouring out of a bag, and before long, the bad guys are in position to deal the US a blow from which it might never recover."
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Click here to listen to Russ discuss his novel on the Cindi Sullivan show on 84 WHAS.
4/3/2012 - THE SUPERB REVIEWS CONTINUE TO COME IN FOR AGENT OF INFLUENCE. IT RECENTLY RECEIVED 4.5 OUT OF 5 STARS FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW. FIND OUT WHY, "AGENT OF INFLUENCE IS AN ACTION-PACKED MYSTERY/THRILLER THAT IS CERTAIN TO ENTERTAIN".
Agent of Influence made it to the second round of judging for the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and was one of 2000 manuscripts/novels considered for the award.
Agent of Influence is now available on kindle for only $3.99! If you do not own a kindle and want to read it on the computer you can also get it directly through I-universe for only $6.
Not sure if you are ready to commit to a new author? Check out The Wet Job, The Escape, and A New Beginning. A collection of short stories that bridge the gap with Agent of Influence. Available exclusively on kindle for just $1.49. In The Wet Job follow CIA agent Anna Starks as she takes on one of her first assignments involving what the former KGB would have called "wet work" or a "wet job". In the chilly waters of the Pacific Ocean a group of rich Europeans are enjoying an adrenaline packed vacation as they cage dive with great white sharks. But something else is stalking the vacationers; the cold hand of revenge.
In The Escape, follow two Nazi SS officers as they struggle to survive the
death throes of the Third Reich at the end of WWII.
In A New
Beginning, follow the teenage daughter of the American ambassador as she tries
to navigate her family's past in the ancient Egyptian city of Cairo while coming
to grips with her pending move to the United States.
"A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Hamilton holds a business degree and has worked mostly in the financial industry. His favorite reading material is espionage and world history, particularly twentieth-century nonfiction. With sixteen years invested in the reading of real-life espionage stories and historical non-fiction of the twentieth century, Hamilton might as well have a PhD. in thrills."
