about me

Here's the boilerplate: Jeff Shear is the author of the book, The Keys to the Kingdom, which was an investigation into a weapons deal between the US and Japan (the FSX), published by Doubleday in 1994. He has been a Fellow at The Center for Public Integrity, in Washington, DC where he was one of several contributors to the book The Buying of the Congress, published by Avon in 1998. Before that he served as staff correspondent for National Journal, with regular venues at the White House, Congress and Treasury. His magazine writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone and other national publications. http://bit.ly/fw8U9k He has written TV scripts for the National Geographic Channel, Discovery, and The History Channel. He is currently mired (and at a halt) long into a digital biography about an American woman who spied for the British during World War II, serialized on the History News Network, a project of the Center for History and the New Media at George Mason University: http://hnn.us/articles/129383.html. And I'm going to put my toe into the water here, hoping to get comments on a novel I'm completing, in a genre author Alan Furst describes as “…the literature of clandestine conflict….” with a bomb.

favourite books

Anything by Raymond Chandler (for his voice, description and detail) or Alan Furst (for his grace and subtlety, his sense of history). The work of Ward Just and John le Carre. Anything by Tom Wolfe, for his wit and energy and his affect on American writing. Hemingway, because he crashed against the American sentence and beat it into shape and loved writing and knew a thing or too about clean well- lighted places. The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins; James Tiptree, Jr., by Julies Phillips; Anything by Steven Levy, for his insight (and foresight) into technology. Steven Berlin Johnson, because he's provocative... Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill. There's too much; this isn't a fair question. In fact, I read very little but what I read, I read very closely.

my websites

https://www.facebook.com/BlackRackBooks     http://www.miller-mccune.com/author/jshear/