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Ted Bell, now a full-time writer, was one of the leading talents in advertising, having won every award the industry offers, including numerous Clios and Cannes Gold Lions, and, as Worldwide Creative Director of Y&R, the Grand Prix at the prestigious Cannes Festival.
A native Floridian, Bell graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia and is a former member of the college’s Board of Trustees. Bell began his advertising career at Doyle Dane Bernbach, New York, as a junior copywriter in the early seventies. By age 25 he’d sold his first screenplay and become the youngest vice president in the storied history of the creative powerhouse, DDB.
In 1982 he joined Leo Burnett Co., Chicago, as a creative director. He was named President, Chief Creative Officer just four years later, in 1986, at age 40. Credited with developing numerous innovative and award-winning advertising campaigns, Bell joined Young & Rubicam, London, in 1991 as Vice Chairman and Worldwide Creative Director. After 10 years at Y&R, Bell retired in 2001 to write full time.
Bell lives in Palm Beach, Florida, and Aspen, Colorado with his wife, artist and political consultant, Page Lee Hufty.
Rights to his first novel Nick of Time, an old-fashioned sea-adventure, were sold to Crusader/Paramount Productions in Hollywood. His second novel, Hawke quickly became a national bestseller, and now released in paperback.
His newest novel, Assassin has opened to rave reviews.
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Alexander Hawke is beginning to piece his life back together when he receives word that someone is systematically murdering American diplomats and their families around the globe.
On the trail of two killers, Hawke must call upon resources deep within himself to stop a terrorist attack with grave global implications.
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| Hawke |
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Lord Alexander Hawke is a direct descendant of the legendary English pirate Blackhawke and highly skilled in the cutthroat's deadly ways himself. While still a boy, on a voyage to the Caribbean, Alex Hawke witnesses an act of unspeakable horror. Hidden in a secret compartment on his father's yacht, Alex sees his parents brutally murdered by three modern-day pirates. It is an event that will haunt him for the remainder of his life.
Now, fully grown and one of England's most decorated naval heroes, Hawke is back in the same Caribbean waters on a secret mission for the American government. A highly experimental stealth submarine, built by the Soviets just before the end of the Cold War, is missing. She carries forty nuclear warheads and is believed to be in the hands of a very unstable government just ninety miles from the American mainland. Hawke is in a race against time.
His mission: Find the deadly sub before a preemptive strike can be launched against the U.S., and confront the murderous men behind the personal nightmare that haunts him before they find him first.
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James Patterson has already called Ted Bell "the new Clive Cussler" and his protagnoist Alexander Hawke "the new James Bond." With such lofty praise for this first-time author, does the book deliver?
Yes.
Fans of the adventure genre will enjoy Hawke, the iconoclastic direct descendant of the nefarious pirate Black Hawke.
Cuban insurgents threaten to overthrow Fidel Castro's Cuba and then plan to launch a preemptive strike from a monstrous Russian-made nuclear submarine designed from purloined American Stealth technology. A multi-disciplinary team of American military and civilians link up with England's Alexander Hawke to attempt to thwart the Cuban threat. The story hurtles to the final outcome as Commander Hawke and his not so merry band of Americans race against time.
I particularly enjoyed the British point of view as well as the banter between Hawke and the turgid CIA types: the apparent realism of their interactions enhanced the reading experience.
A secondary theme continually yet effectively resurfaces throughout Hawke; as a small boy, Alexander Hawke witness the brutal murders of his parents by modern-day pirates. Although traumatized by this event, his often subconscious desire to avenge their deaths both conflicts and coincides with his mission to prevent a highly volatile date of international affairs. His struggle to unleash his pent-up wrath in order to extract personal vengeance allows the reader to empathize with the protagonist.
Hawke's two cohorts, Stokely, an American with many deadly talents, and Amrbose Congreve, a prissy yet relentlessly focused criminalist with New Scotland Yard, add some spice to the storyline. They round out a character-driver, contemporary adventure read.
I will be on the lookout for the further adventures of Alexander Hawke. |
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| Posted 07-08-2004 |
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