At Transworld, we are immensely privileged to have very dedicated authors who meticulous research the content of their books to give the reader a compelling, absorbing and factual account of events past. Sean Black is an author who goes just that one step further to produce his enthralling Ryan Lock thrillers.
In order to get into the head of his main character – Ryan Lock - Sean enrolled on a 24 day close protection course along with several others including an ex-German Special Forces sniper and a member of the Mafia. To add further to the ordeal, Sean was subjected to gruelling training, police drills and ‘simulated’ attacks; at one point he was pushed to the ground at gunpoint and soon learnt why the base used plastic bed sheets…
Ostensibly every man’s dream, Sean was taken to a disused air field, handed the keys to half a dozen cars and taught offensive and defensive manoeuvres before being flown to Prague for fire-arms training. Sean maintains that these were the most enjoyable weeks of his life… to this day we fail to understand why! If all of this wasn’t enough, Sean also did time at Pelican Bay Supermax in California, home to America’s most violent prison gangs where 75% of inmates are serving life without possibility of parole.
So there are writers that research and then there are writers that research and we are glad Sean is the latter as the brilliant paperback of Lockdown hits the shelves today with Deadlock in hardback on the 22nd of next month.
To read more about Sean, visit his website: http://seanblackbooks.com/
