John Pearce, author of the Eddie Grant Saga and Sandi Brennan Series
John Pearce lives in Paris part of each year, gathering information for the novels in his Eddie Grant and Sandi Brennan novels. His first, Treasure of Saint-Lazare, was the top historical mystery in the Readers' Favorite writing contest in the year it was published.
He is a former journalist whose reporting in Europe sparked a lifelong fascination with Cold War espionage and the hidden power struggles that survived the fall of the Soviet Union. A former contributor to the International Herald Tribune, he writes thrillers that blend intelligence tradecraft, history, and modern geopolitics.
His Eddie Grant series is set in contemporary Paris and follows an American expatriate drawn back into the shadow world of covert operations, where past wars refuse to stay buried and personal loyalties are constantly tested. Pearce’s fiction combines a journalist’s eye for detail with a deep love of Paris and its layered history.
In 2026 he began a new series featuring American Army officer Sandi Brennan. who turns down a colonel's eagle to move to Paris and start a new job working with the brass of European armies.
He divides his time between Paris and Washington, D.C.
Contact: jmp@jmpfl.com
You can see the entire Eddie Grant Saga, in all editions, at this link. The first Sandi Brennan novel, Paris Reckoning, is also available as a Kindle from Amazon. Audio and paperback editions will follow.
John Pearce lives in Paris part of each year, gathering information for the novels in his Eddie Grant and Sandi Brennan novels. His first, Treasure of Saint-Lazare, was the top historical mystery in the Readers' Favorite writing contest in the year it was published.
He is a former journalist whose reporting in Europe sparked a lifelong fascination with Cold War espionage and the hidden power struggles that survived the fall of the Soviet Union....
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...
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.
Lauren is "Book 0" of the Eddie Grant Saga. It tells of Eddie's early life as a schoolboy in Paris and his days as a college student in Texas, before he became a Special Forces officer and served in the First Gulf War. It sets the stage for the entire series.
The button will generate an email link to the novella's free download page on StoryOrigin, where you can download it in any format, including native Kindle. However, if you'd rather read it in the Amazon ecosystem, it's available for 99 cents at this link.
