John Pearce, author of the Eddie Grant Saga
John Pearce, author of the Eddie Grant Saga

My first novel, Treasure of Saint-Lazare, was chosen best historical mystery of its year by Readers' Favorite. It is a taut tale of World War II riches lost and found, and continues to be my top seller. Three other novels continued the story up to the present. Last Stop: Paris was a finalist in Shelf Unbound Magazine's "Best Indie Book of the Year" competition. 

I wanted to write spy novels even before I set out on a journalism career that took me from Civil Rights era Mississippi, to Washington for finance and economics coverage, to Germany and Paris to edit magazines, and then to various cities and careers in the United States. Finally, I could turn to my old goal of becoming a spy novelist.

As a fringe benefit of the considerable research that’s involved, I get to be a part-time Parisian, working part of each year back in the hometown of the old International Herald Tribune, where my wife and I both worked as German-language correspondents while we lived in Frankfurt.  After yet another career in Florida, we sold our business and moved back to Washington, where I spend my days working on books yet unwritten.

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Treasure of Saint-Lazare: A Novel of Paris

Readers' Favorite top historical mystery of its year!

"A Brilliant Fact-Based Thriller"

“Bravo!” (Ronald Rosbottom, author of When Paris Went Dark)

A man caught in the middle of a search for World War II treasures and a murder plot finds himself re-examining his own past tragedies.

Pearce keeps secrets from his characters and readers alike; the plot...

Last Stop: Paris (The Eddie Grant Series, #2)

He got them all...All but one. Now the leader of the gang is in his sights — but at terrible risk to Aurélie, the love of his life.You might think Eddie Grant has done everything he can but it wouldn’t be true, at least not yet.

The half-American, half-French golden boy of Paris cleaned up most of the gang that murdered his father, his wife, and...

The Final Heist (Eddie Grant Book 4)

Imagine a tranquil afternoon in a Paris office ripped apart by the staccato of gunfire.

Former Special Forces commander Eddie Grant springs into action, disarming one assailant but stumbling upon a lethal package rigged to bring down a historic Parisian building. The stakes? Not just the architectural gem, but countless lives—including his own.

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