6:00pm two weeks from Thursday, April 19 at the San Francisco Ferry Building Discussion of The Point of a Gun and Townsend Walker’s Book

by Melfi McLain | Apr 2, 2018 | Uncategorized

As the alumni article below lays out, I will be doing a discussion of my new thriller The Point of a Gun in San Francisco at the Ferry Building at 6:00pm two weeks from Thursday, April 19. As an added twist, one of my fellow Stanford Economics Ph.D. graduate student...

The Point of a Gun Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist!

by Melfi McLain | Apr 2, 2018 | Uncategorized

Today, I am very pleased to announce that The Point of a Gun has been recognized as a finalist in the 20th annual, 2017, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. As part of its mission to discover, review, and share the best books from university and independent...

“Writers and Authors” Thriller Trope Interview of “The Point of a Gun”

by Melfi McLain | Oct 6, 2017 | suspense, terrorism, The Point of a Gun, thriller, thrillers

http://www.writersandauthors.info/2017/10/thriller-tropes.html Thriller Tropes Posted by Jo Linsdell at 7:30 AM Thriller Tropes, guest post by Steve Kohlhagen Thrillers come in a wide variety of types: political, detective, serial killers, terrorism, stalkers,...

Review of “The Point of a Gun”

by Melfi McLain | Aug 7, 2017 | suspense, terrorism, The Point of a Gun, thriller, thrillers

Thanks to Benjamin Welton of Foreword Reviews for his open and honest review of my new thriller, “The Point of a Gun” http://tinyurl.com/ybdks7np. Welton says, “Steven W. Kohlhagen’s taut and tense political action story lays bare the potential for...

MORE LONE—AND KNOWN—WOLVES?

by Melfi McLain | Jul 15, 2017 | suspense, terrorism, The Point of a Gun, thriller, thrillers

With ISIS reeling from Iraq and the most likely death of its leader, global terrorism may well evolve, sadly, into being a greater number of attacks with more amorphous, random targets (see this article by Simon Mabon http://tinyurl.com/ydyan3lo ).Already the WSJ had...