Grant Blackwood Explained

Grant Blackwood
Birth Date:	7 June 1964
Birth Place:	United States
Occupation:	Novelist, ghostwriter
Genre:	Thriller
Language:	English

Grant Blackwood (born June 7, 1964) is an American thriller writer and ghostwriter from Austin, Minnesota.^[1] ^[2] He wrote the Briggs Tanner series. He co-authored with Clive Cussler Spartan Gold^[3] which reached number 10 on the New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list.^[4] Blackwood spent three years as an Operations Specialist and pilot rescue swimmer aboard a guided missile frigate and is a veteran of the United States Navy.^[5]

Novels

Briggs Tanner series

The End of Enemies (2001)
The Wall of Night (2002)
An Echo of War (2003)

Fargo Adventures series (co-authored with Clive Cussler)

Spartan Gold (2009)
Lost Empire (2010)
The Kingdom (2011)

Jack Ryan, Jr. Series

Dead or Alive (2010) co-authored with Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy: Under Fire (2015)
Tom Clancy: Duty and Honor (2016)

Splinter Cell series (writing as "David Michaels")

(2006)
(2007)

EndWar series (writing as "David Michaels")

Tom Clancy's EndWar (2008)
Tom Clancy's EndWar: The Hunted (2011)

Tucker Wayne series (with James Rollins)

The Kill Switch (Tucker Wayne #1) (2014)
War Hawk (Tucker Wayne #2) (January 1, 2016)^[6]

Short story

"Sacrificial Lion" (2006) in the anthology Thriller, edited by James Patterson

Awards

Finalist for the 2002 Minnesota Book Award in Popular Fiction for End of Enemies.^[7]

External links

Official Website

Notes and References

Web site: For Authors, Ghostwriting Offers Solvency, Stability. NPR. Lynn Neary. August 4, 2009. February 24, 2010.
Web site: Bothun . Jora . 2016-08-26 . Hometown author returns; Grant Blackwood gives seminar on writing . 2023-03-16 . Austin Daily Herald . en.
Web site: Spartan Gold by Clive Cussler, with Grant Blackwood . Mark Combes . ThrillerWriters.org . February 24, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110711235724/http://www.thrillerwriters.org/2009/08/spartan-gold-by-clive-cussler-with-grant.html . July 11, 2011 . dead .
Web site: Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers. New York Times. October 18, 2009. February 24, 2010.
Web site: WRITE of SPRING III . Crimespree Magazine . March 26, 2005 . Grant Blackwood is a U.S. Navy veteran, having spent three years on active duty aboard the guided missile frigate USS Ford as an operations specialist and a Pilot Rescue Swimmer..
Book: War Hawk (Tucker Wayne #2). Rollins, James. 9780062135278. April 7, 2015. William Morrow .
Web site: Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners – 2002 . The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library . February 24, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100215120847/http://www.thefriends.org/mba_winners_2002.html . February 15, 2010 . dead .