Release Day! Jake Rivett in… TERROR MACHINE.
Jake Rivett is back.
They call it… The Terror Machine.
It’s the holy grail of terrorism: A machine that can create martyrs out of thin air.
But can unorthodox NYPD Detective Jake Rivett and the elite operators from NYPD Counterterror and Major Crimes stop its creator before the invention is perfected?
I am thrilled to announce that the third Jake Rivett thriller, TERROR MACHINE, is now available for Kindle and Paperback!
Click here to find TERROR MACHINE on Amazon!
The third Rivett novel is about a massive counterterror operation, led by Jake Rivett, to locate and neutralize a diabolical terror cell in New York City. Just like Flash Crash and Never Go Alone, Terror Machine combines a classic gumshoe mystery with high-tech thrills and an utterly modern vibe and is, as Kirkus Reviews wrote, “a pure adrenaline rush!“
But at it’s core, Terror Machine is about more than that. This book is about Jake Rivett, the man. He’s changed a massive amount since Flash Crash, but Terror Machine will catapult Rivett to a new place in life. Some of his personal journey is good, and some is not-so-good. But once you read the novel, you won’t be able to disagree that his new trajectory is extremely exciting. Jake Rivett has never been a man who wanted to change anything about himself. But his world will change in Terror Machine… forever.
Thanks for reading!
-Denison
On December 18th, Jake Rivett is back in… TERROR MACHINE.
On December 18th…
Unorthodox NYPD Detective Jake Rivett returns in…
The ultimate high-tech terrorism thriller novel:
TERROR MACHINE
Dear Rivetters:
The next Jake Rivett thriller is ready, the cover is done, and the release date is set!
A massive and devastating terror attack shakes Manhattan to its core. The terrorist responsible is a ghost and his cell fits no profile. But even worse than that, the joint task force—comprised of Jake Rivett, the Feds, and the NYPD’s Counterterror and Major Crimes Divisions—pull back the curtain on a science experiment like no other.
It’s called the Terror Machine.
The machine might not be perfect. But it works. The deadliest terror attack in New York since 9/11 proves that. But who’s going into the machine next? And more importantly, what will they do when they get out?
There’s so much to talk about in this book, but here’s a little more:
At first, Rivett and the joint task force find no answers—only questions.
What do a discredited neurophysiologist from the leafy collegetown of Stony Brook, a slumlord religious scholar in Astoria, and a seventeen-year-old boy who loves to sneak out of the house have in common?
Rivett—newly engaged to the love of his life, Mona—will find out.
But at what cost?
Because in the end, no one really gets out of the Terror Machine.
To finish this case, to destroy the cell, to save the city…
Rivett will rage like he’s never raged before.
Click here to check out Terror Machine on Amazon!
(Published by Lookout Press)
A personal note from the Author:
First, thank you so much for the support over the last four (!) years of writing the Rivett Thrillers.
I appreciate every single person who has read (and if I’m lucky, maybe even reviewed) Flash Crash, Never Go Alone, and now, Terror Machine.
Second, if you are just arriving to Jake Rivett’s world, there’s a couple things to know. These books are designed to be standalone thrillers. So pick up the one that interests you the most and get going! That said, they can also be read in series order. And if you do read them in series order, you’ll find a little more texture and character evolution as your reward. I’ve put a few links and quotes from my favorite reviews below to help you get started.
And most of all…
Thank you for loving to read great fiction (whether mine or others)!
With Regards,
Denison
www.denisonhatch.com
Twitter: @denisonhatch
Facbook: @denisonhatchauthor
Flash Crash is FREE this weekend (for Kindle), and more RIVETT Updates!
Dear Rivetters:
Taking a quick break from the third novel to say hello!
1) First of all, a special note about Flash Crash. The kindle version of Flash Crash is COMPLETELY FREE this whole weekend (starting right now)!
Free on Kindle for the weekend, starting now!
You can go to Amazon to pick it up for ZERO BUCKS and go down the (very) unique path of a certain man named Jake Rivett (He’s an NYPD detective who’s about as different from any NYPD detective you’ve ever met before).
2) Second, a progress update on book three and some writing musings:
The title of my third Jake Rivett novel is HIS NAME IS RIVETT. As you may have witnessed in the first two books, there’s an evolution occurring with both the character and the series. In Flash Crash, Jake shares the glory with programmer David Belov. By Never Go Alone, Jake is the full-on lead character and we delve much more into his worldview and personal goals—while he solves a series of insane skyscraper heists in Manhattan.
But the stakes in His Name Is Rivett are raised even higher. Amongst other things, His Name Is Rivett is a full-on hunt for an active terror cell on U.S. soil. But when I say “amongst other things,” there’s tons of other elements to this story—Rock shows in the dark catacomb basements of New York, debunked experimental technology that may actually be operable, international intelligence agencies floating around every turn, family dramas… the list goes on.
Although I’m super excited for you to read the third book, I’m not ready to provide a release date yet. I refuse to shotgun novels out into the world (as the expression goes, to “throw something against a wall and see what sticks”)—no matter how financially rewarding it might be. I’ve noticed that many authors in the Kindle and online ecosystem pump out two, three, four or more books a year. They’re usually basic whodunits, a draft and a polish, forty thousand words, done and done. While I understand the model, these aren’t the types of books I’m interested in reading… or writing. As usual, His Name Is Rivett is going to be big, long, deep, fully stand alone, and (always) extremely entertaining. It is a grand adventure filled with awesome action, neck-breaking twists, and complex stories. Clancy, Crichton, and Connelly… these are the types of books I’m aspiring to write. (A shame my last name doesn’t start with a C! “Catch”?) Can’t wait for you to read His Name Is Rivett—but only when it’s ready, or as Rivett might say, fully ace!
3) Third, some fun stuff I found. It’s always been important to me that the novels expose interesting technologies, subcultures, and modern-but-obscure realities of the world. Here’s some cool real-life technologies and locations which relate directly to the first two books.
Ever Heard of a Stingray Machine?
Until recently, no one knew what a Stingray was. It’s one of the most top-secret intelligence technologies that the Feds (and large local police departments) use to conduct cell phone surveillance. Slowly, like a trickle, more and more information about Stingray devices has filtered out into the public. But it’s still all very hush-hush and almost impossible to get official information about this device. Stingray devices (also called “ISMI-catchers”) spoof cell phone towers so that suspects or individuals under surveillance believe they are connected to their regular cell phone company—but in actuality, all of their phone’s information (location, calls, texts, data, etc.) is first being filtered to law enforcement. Of course, Jake Rivett and his colleagues use a Stingray machine in Flash Crash for one very important turn…
A real-life Stingray.
Here’s a great article (“The Dragnet”) about one case in which the public first began to learn specific details about the Stingray machine.
A Secret Subway Station
In Never Go Alone, Jake quickly finds himself banding up with a team of urban explorers (who may or may not be thieves). Deep underneath the city, they discover an old, abandoned subway station underneath the Waldorf-Astoria. Astonishingly, this is a completely real location. Although long decommissioned (interestingly because curved station walls wouldn’t allow newer, longer subway cars to make the turns), it was used for visits from President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other VIPs from the late 1920’s until at least 1944. Truly incredible.
Underneath the Waldorf…
You can check out more information and pictures of the station here.
The Tunnel Plug
The final bank heist in Flash Crash relies on an ingenious device called a tunnel plug. I won’t go into many more details (to keep the surprise alive), but suffice to say this thing is completely real and has had working tests!
An actual prototype being tested… Is that Vlad’s warehouse?
Check out the REAL tunnel plug here (but maybe read Flash Crash first?!):
I hope to check in again soon about His Name Is Rivett. And don’t forget, the Kindle version of Flash Crash is FREE this weekend on Amazon! Thanks for being a reader and a very special thanks to anyone who has posted a review of The Jake Rivett Series!
Until next time,
Denison
NEVER GO ALONE – Release Day!
Never Go Alone by Denison Hatch.
NEVER GO ALONE is OUT NOW!
Buy it right now on Amazon for paperback, Kindle, and Kindle Unlimited!
… and the RAVES are COMING IN:
From Best Thrillers: “The return of Denison Hatch’s unruly, undercover NYPD detective Jake Rivett is something to celebrate.” From Book Postmortem: “Denison Hatch has done it again. The second in the Jake Rivett Series is as riveting as the first. As breathtaking, as heart-hammering and as page-turning!” From Kirkus Reviews: “This time, Ducati-loving Jake, a headbanger musician in his spare time, goes deep undercover to infiltrate a group that is specifically targeting penthouse apartments in skyscrapers belonging to a Donald Trump-ish real estate mogul, Arthur Metropolis.” I HOPE YOU ENJOY NEVER GO ALONE!UNTIL THE NEXT INSANE ADVENTURE, -RIVETT OUT |
NEVER GO ALONE – Kindle Pre-Order is Open!
Dear RIVETTERS:
NEVER GO ALONE is officially available for Kindle pre-order!
You can go directly to the Amazon page to buy it right now and have it automatically delivered to your Kindle or eBook reader on December 1st: http://amzn.to/2erLP3s
Never Go Alone by Denison Hatch
I think this book is going to eclipse Flash Crash. In terms of sales, potentially, but more importantly when it comes to reader appreciation. You will love it. I personally feel that the new thriller is more exciting, well-rounded, and entertaining than the former, but also (critically) filled with tons more character development when it comes to our main man, Jake Rivett. Never Go Alone is a thriller, yes. But it’s also something else: It’s a love story. It’s a love story that revolves around Jake and a new female character, but also around the nature of the city environment itself. Obviously, you’ll have to read it for yourself to understand exactly what I mean.
Both the Kindle and the physical book will be released on December 1st. As of now, only Kindle books are available for pre-order. The Kindle book will likely be around 400 Kindle pages, and the paperback novel will come in just a hair above 300 pages. As usual, I only publish real books. None of these six-part, 50-pages-each, money-grinders. That’s not what a Rivett thriller is and never will be. And also as usual, Never Go Alone is completely readable as a standalone novel in and of itself.
And finally, a description of Never Go Alone:
A rash of elaborate cat burglaries of luxury buildings in Manhattan has the city panicked.
When a group of social media obsessed millennials–a loosely organized crew that call themselves “urban explorers”–are suspected in the heists, NYPD detective Jake Rivett is assigned the case. Rivett dives deep into the urban exploration scene in pursuit of the truth.
But what, and who, he finds–deep in the sewers, up in the cranes above under-construction skyscrapers, and everywhere else in New York–will change not only Jake, but the city itself.
THE FIRST RULE OF URBAN EXPLORATION IS: NEVER GO ALONE.
I CANNOT WAIT to hear what you think of the next RIVETT novel!
Sincerely,
Denison
On December 1st, RIVETT is back in NEVER GO ALONE!
Dear Friends, Readers, and Rivett-ers,
The next Jake Rivett thriller is ready, the cover is done, and the release date is set!
But first, I’d like to talk about Flash Crash for a brief moment. I’ve officially sold over a thousand copies of Flash Crash. It’s an awesome thing to have my novel out there in the world, enjoyed by both people that I know and more importantly, those I don’t. And the first group who deserve serious thanks are you–my most loyal and interested fans.
Reviews are perhaps the most important marketing element of any book. And I am grateful that excellent reviews keep rollin’ on in. Just a few small blurbs from recent reviews:
“A high octane ride… fueled by the mind instead of brawn and violence.”
“With more switchbacks than Route 66, Flash Crash kicks in where other thrillers are rolling the closing credits. Hi-tech Manhattan meets low rent Jersey in this blockbuster first novel.”
“The detective, Rivett, is like a train wreck of bad behavior and good morals mixed together. He’s irresistible to follow…”
On that note, if you have yet to review the book, it would be HUGELY appreciated! You can click here to do that (scroll down and click on “Write a customer review.”) And if you have already reviewed the book, I would appreciate if you would LIKE or SHARE my Facebook Author Page, RETWEET my Twitter, or send anyone who loves insane thrillers to DenisonHatch.com.
Every new fan and every new sale really helps out yours truly and both supports and inspires me to keep on writing Rivett thrillers!
Whew. Now that the appetizer is over, the entree awaits:
NEVER GO ALONE is done. It’s been re-written countless times. It’s been edited. It is being formatted into both Kindle and paperback versions as we speak. And I am ultra excited for you to get your hands on it… Very soon!
Here is a summary:
NEVER GO ALONE
A rash of elaborate cat burglaries of luxury buildings in Manhattan has the police and mayor panicked. When a group of social media obsessed millennials—a loosely organized crew that call themselves “urban explorers”—are suspected in the heists, NYPD detective Jake Rivett is assigned the case.
Already undercover with one foot on each side of the blue line, Rivett is ordered to infiltrate the group and discern responsibility. Battling against both his own personal demons and misgivings regarding his superiors, Rivett dives deep into the urban exploration scene in pursuit of the truth. But what, and who, he finds—deep in the sewers, up in the cranes above under-construction skyscrapers, and everywhere else in New York—will change not only Jake, but the city itself.
COMING SOON: Never Go Alone: A Jake Rivett thriller by Denison Hatch
Never Go Alone continues to follow your favorite Ducati-driving, Screamo-band-moonlighting NYPD detective, Jake Rivett. It picks up about a year after Flash Crash. And just like Flash Crash, Never Go Alone is certainly a thriller of the highest order. But it’s not a technothriller in the manner that Flash Crash was. Never Go Alone has a little less tech, and whole helluva’ lot more mystery.
It’s filled with neck-breaking twists, some badass new characters and Jake Rivett’s unforgettable, twisted-but-moralistic view of the world. Of course, there are some absolutely breathtaking and ingenious heists within the novel. But it is also a rumination on the state of society; the Have’s and Have-not’s of the modern world. As usual, it won’t be clear exactly who you should be rooting for. Everyone’s a sinner and everyone’s an angel–at the same time–in this novel.
And when the promo above says, “the city itself” will be changed? That’s not hyperbole. You’ll have to finish the book to understand, but Rivett has gotten himself into a case which goes both deep underground and far, far, up the food chain of money and power in New York.
A final note about the Jake Rivett series: Each book is designed to be a consuming, heart-pounding, standalone thriller. You can read any book, at any time, and feel very satisfied. That said, reading the books in their actual intended order (which as of now is: Flash Crash, Never Go Alone) will make the experience even better!
The release date for Never Go Alone is December 1st. It will be available as a 300-page paperback novel and also as a Kindle ebook at that time. And I will send out another update soon when pre-orders are open!
Thanks so much, and I can’t wait until you all can get your hands on Never Go Alone!
Take care, Denison
Flash Crash: A Jake Rivett Heist Thriller – RELEASE DAY!
As Jake Rivett would scream, “YAYAYAAYAAAAA!!!!”
Today my novel, FLASHCRASH, is available on paperback and Kindle from Amazon.com.
I’ve learned an insane amount while writing, editing, and producing this book. Over the course of the next two months, I’m going to make a few posts about cover design and other important lessons that I’ve learned. But right now I’d like to take just a brief moment and talk about why I wrote Flash Crash.
First, I became infatuated with the way that computers, and programs, are controlling Wall Street. The old image—of a Wall Street trader who wears striped Brooks Brothers and operates, as my book describes it, on “luck, spit and a handshake”—is quickly fading from the modern zeitgeist. That person has slowly become replaced by the “quant.” The quantitative analyst or programmer, culled from a growing pool of ambitious PhD, mathematics, and computer science majors, creates computer systems that trade thousands of commodities and equities around the world. What’s more, modern investment banks and secretive-but-powerful hedge funds alike no longer trust the speed of the human brain when it comes to trading. Trading is conducted by super computers, located within inches from the exchanges that they are participating in, and conducting a modern version of electronic combat against one another. Counter-strategies are designed to root out other parties’ strategies. There is, indeed, an arms race occurring within the black boxes that control the modern financial world and it shows no signs of stopping.
This idea enthralled me, and brought about a parallel thought. What if someone could indeed engineer a program that would intentionally crash a particular stock or market?
I had to do my research. It turns out that I wasn’t the first person to think about this. First of all, had something like this ever happened before? It turns out that both mini and major “Flash Crashes” have occurred throughout the market’s history. And they are increasing. A firm called NANEX keeps track of suspicious order flow and volume and subsequent correlation with Flash Crash incidences. It has been proven that there are numerous examples of unexplained crashes in financial markets—and major winners and losers on either side of these events.
But it’s not just Wall Street. “Industrial control switches” is a fancy word for computers that control devices. And they’re everywhere: From a pacemaker in someone’s heart, to the chip in a nuclear centrifuge and everywhere in between.
And I didn’t set out to just write a thriller that took place in front of a computer screen. I love heist movies and novels like The Great Train Robbery and Ocean’s Eleven. Flash Crash starts out in front of a computer–but it definitely doesn’t end there!
With Flash Crash, I attempted to attack the reality of this new twist in the modern zeitgeist head-on. The book is all about controlling the real world through technology. One of our leads is David Belov, a quant who has pulled himself up by the bootstraps at every stage in life. After David is coerced into causing a crash in the gold market and framed for the resulting chaos, he must clear his name. This eventually leads David to literally hack a soda machine in order to create a Trojan horse which will lead him—and his compatriots—into an inaccessible vault buried under four stories of impenetrable granite and completely controlled by computers.
Please check the novel out, write a review on Amazon or Goodreads, and spread the excellent word if you like it!
Thanks so much.
Flash Crash – Kindle Pre-Order is Open!
Quick Update: I am super excited to announced that Flash Crash is now available for Kindle Pre-Order! You can click here to access the Amazon Pre-Order page!
In Flash Crash . . .
David Belov, a quant programmer working for an investment bank in New York is blackmailed into writing an algorithm that will intentionally crash the gold market. David discovers that his virtual Flash Crash was simply a required stepping stone towards the largest physical gold robbery in history, and that’s he’s been framed for the resulting chaos, the lives of his beloved wife and son on the balance . . .
Just a reminder that the novel will be released on April 13th, 2016. I’ve also been receiving proofs from my printer, Createspace, for the paperback version. They look super awesome. Although I know that many authors have eschewed physical books altogether, they make the novel very real. I can’t wait until they can get into your collective hands. Unfortunately, there will not be a pre-order for the physical books. But have no fear–they will also be available the morning of April 13th on Amazon!
Here’s another look at the official cover for the novel:
Flash Crash: A Jake Rivett Heist Thriller, a novel by Denison Hatch
Flash Crash: A Jake Rivett Heist Thriller – Info, Release Date & Cover!
Dear Friends & Readers,
It has taken an incredible amount of work to reach this point, but the end is in finally in sight. I’ve spent the last three months preparing my Flash Crash manuscript, having it professionally edited, formatting the cover and the text for numerous digital and physical formats, and beginning the process of marketing and publicity. Having known absolutely nothing about publishing before this, there has been a steep learning curve involved. But it’s also been quite enjoyable, and even though I have yet to sell a single copy, it’s extremely rewarding to be completely in control of getting this enthralling story out into the world. I’m going to write a longer post in a few months containing more details about what I’ve learned about self-publishing. But for this post, I just want to make a few notes about what Flash Crash is, and isn’t.
Flash Crash is a real book. One thing I’ve realized in my research on self-publishing is the absolute multitude of products out there. All one must do is spend a few hours clicking around Amazon.com, to understand the ecosystem. There are tons of authors releasing books that come in at under a hundred and fifty, or under two hundred pages. These “books” have word counts of under 40,000 words, which really makes them novellas or worse. In addition, serialized books are popular, in which there are no endings, only cliffhangers.
I’m not against any of these types of writing, but it’s just not what I love.
What I love is reading a good, long, book with deep characters and an awesome and gripping plot. Flash Crash currently comes in at over 80,000 words and around 300 pages. It’s a novel. It has a beginning, middle and end.
Flash Crash is an electrifying technothriller and heist mystery about a “quant” at an investment bank who is coerced into causing a flash crash in the gold market.
It is also a series, and establishes a character in Jake Rivett, my unorthodox NYPD Detective:
Jake Rivett is a twig-skinny, pale-as-a-ghost, leather-wearing, Ducati-riding, screamo-band-moonlighting, NYPD detective.
Jake is a character that you’ll be able to get behind for future novels. And I’m working on those novels now. But that doesn’t mean that Flash Crash is just a “piece” of a narrative. No. It’s a real book, a one-off that you can take on vacation with you this Spring Break or Summer and read from back to front and leave feeling fully satisfied. I can’t wait until it’s out and you can all start reading . . .
And it will be out. It will be out soon. Where’s my drumroll? No, that’s just the silence of the internet. Anyway:
Flash Crash will be released on Kindle, and for physical book orders, on Wednesday, April 13th, 2016!
And here is the cover that we’ve been working on for a long time now, ready for public consumption:
Flash Crash: A technothriller novel by Denison Hatch
Thanks so much. As we get closer, I’ll be back with some free giveaways, the free first chapter, and more news! So make sure to sign up for my mailing list so you miss nothing!
(BTW – About the mailing list. I don’t use it. I am like the laziest internet marketer on Earth, because I’m not a marketer. I’m a writer. And I truly hate spam. So I get it. You won’t be bombarded with an email every few days, like some authors. You won’t even get an email a month. Just a few a year, with only the most pertinent information).
– Denison
