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Gregory Ryman

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Maybe I’ll start with today and work backwards.

I officially published my first book ‘Louisiana Hydra’ in March 2024. It is a thriller novel, which has been my preferred genre to read for years. That obviously makes me a big fan of authors such as John Sandford, David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Ian Rankin and Jo Nesbo, to name a few.

I do, however, have to give a big shout-out to Stephen King, who changed me from a passive reader of whatever crossed my line of sight into a reader who would end up drumming his fingers on the desk, waiting for that next book to come out. Good job & thank you, you creepy bastard.

Retirement resulted in dramatically expanding the amount of spare time I had available. And apparently, there is a limit t
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||| When writing Louisiana Hydra, I tried leveraging lessons learned from great storytellers like Ian Fleming. I have always been a big fan of James Bond-like characters like Goldfinger and Dr. No.

Of course, with Hydra being set in the present day, I had to make my characters a little more current. In my mind, that meant looking at the current crop of perceived bad

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