Books by
RICHARD SCOTT
My Tony Dantry Novels
Books by
RICHARD SCOTT
My Tony Dantry Novels
My other novels
TIME TRAVEL NOVELS
A delightful story for bedtime or any time. Magic Bird appeals to a child’s imagination as it awakens childhood thoughts in adults. It’s fun for child and adult alike to visualize the amazing magic this smart, lovable bird performs in this illustrated chapter book.
Available on Amazon in paper and Kindle editions.
A bestselling novel of intrigue, shadowy politics, and shocking surprises that deftly navigates between the chaotic hope and confusion of post-Cold War Moscow and turn-of-the-Millennium Washington. This is the first book in the Tony Dantry series. The action is fast paced, and there’s enough hi-tech gadgetry to satisfy the most demanding fans of techno-thrillers.
Each chapter of The Reluctant Assassin pulls the reader deeper into the story as the author builds tension the way a carpenter builds a house—step by well-crafted step. But this brilliantly turned thriller—reminiscent of Ken Follett’s Eye of the Needle—is more than mindless action. The characters are developed, and the reader cares about them.
Masterfully crafted by Richard Scott, The Reluctant Assassin fuses razor-sharp intrigue with a gripping insight into the confusing chaos that exists between the United States and Russia. Having rapidly achieved bestseller status, readers are hailing Scott’s work as “like watching a movie” and “A refreshing approach to the age-old USA vs. USSR story line”. —SBWire
The author definitely knows plotting and that makes the book a good read.—Spy Guys and Gals
The second Tony Dantry novel, but this time the threat is much closer to home. Ziad Azim, a radical terrorist from Yemen and educated in London, focuses his jihadist efforts on American targets. Azim's hero was Osama bin Laden and his goal is to do bin Laden's 9/11 one better. Azim is smart, polished and elusive. Even his own associates can't always keep up with him. His targets are calculated to throw fear and terror into every American's heart. He plans to do this by insuring that no American, no matter where he or she lives, will ever feel safe again.
Dantry becomes involved because Ryan Harmon, a friend of long standing and a one-time Navy Seal comes to Tony to inform him that he suspects some of his fellow employees in a prominent high tech firm of being terrorists. Speaking of high tech, as usual in the Tony Dantry novels, you'll find plenty of the latest spy gadgetry.
At first Dantry is not convinced that Harmon's suspicions have any merit because they seem utterly implausible, but eventually he comes around. Soon Dantry, his girlfriend Joanna Barbeau and Harmon find themselves working alongside the FBI, trying to keep pace with the evil mastermind terrorist threat that manages to keep one step ahead of them at every turn.
Assassination by remote control in this Tony Dantry thriller as he takes on his toughest challenge yet. This is the third book in the Tony Dantry series. A Nobel Prize-winning scientist in a federal research laboratory has successfully covered up his real activities for years. Then one day he saves an accident victim's life by pushing brain surgery to unheard of limits. In doing so he raises disturbing questions about how far science should go: Just because we can do something, should we? Technology aficionados will find robotics and microchip implants in this fast-paced harbinger of the all-too-near future. Motivated by his own personal agenda and an overwhelming thirst for power the scientist clandestinely creates a legion of activators and exerts previously unthinkable control over the actions of people in key positions. Nonstop action takes the reader from California to the Caribbean to Washington, DC as the scientist's procedures threaten the very foundations of Western democracy.
What if your neighbor’s son or daughter has been persuaded to join ISIS? Worse, what if the son or daughter of a friend has gone over to the terrorist group? When retired CIA operative Tony Dantry is contacted by old friend Quentin Ramos for a favor, it leads to something much bigger and far more threatening than Tony ever imagined. Ramos suspects that his son, a clean-cut extremely likable college student, has been communicating with ISIS terrorists. Because of Dantry’s CIA experience and law enforcement connections, Ramos thinks Tony can look into the situation more discreetly than he as a parent could. Ramos didn’t want to snoop into the personal life of his son, but things had gotten so serious that something had to be done before it was too late to save his son. Dantry agrees to help and finds himself inextricably drawn into something that all of us read about in the news every day, but don’t believe could happen to us. (Originally released as Closer Than You think)
Retired CIA agent Tony Dantry takes on his most challenging case yet as he matches wits with a clandestine group plotting a doomsday scenario that could affect the entire world. Throwbacks to World War II come together in this present-day thriller that’s bound to keep you on the edge of your seat. An ingenious plot threatens the stability of the world. Throw in lifelike robots and you have a contemporary page turner that will keep you up at night. There’s plenty of thought-provoking content. The characters are believable. You either love them or hate them.
Some fortunate seniors see their relaxed lifestyle in a retirement community as a carefree way of life that they’ve worked all their lives to achieve. Many retirement communities compare favorably to the lifestyle enjoyed on luxury cruise ships. Imagine how this picture-perfect life of leisure is shattered when a resident of one retirement community is found murdered on a nearby rail trail. Former CIA operative Tony Dantry is called in by the wife of the deceased when the local authorities don’t view the death as a homicide. Before long more bodies are found and it becomes clear that this idyllic retirement community is at the mercy of a serial killer.
Americans have lived through the controversy and turbulence of recent presidential elections and their aftermath. The political novel 2024 takes the reader to a new level of tension as it reveals the sordid and devious events leading up to the 2024 presidential election. Those events are just a hint of what’s to come in the wake of that 2024 election. Prepare yourself for an alarming, harrowing ride through the mid-decade election as the new president makes bold and frightening decisions never dreamed of in the event-filled history of the United States
Other books by
Richard Scott
Historic Novels
Time Travel
See how Salem, Massachusetts relates to the founding of Boston, Roger Williams, the famed witchcraft trials, the forming of America’s military, John Adams, privateering, wealthy shipping merchants, Alexander Graham Bell, and much more.
The year is 1881, and an athletic-looking President of the United States—barely four months in office—steps nimbly down from the presidential carriage as it pulls up to the bustling Washington Train Depot. The president will shortly board a train that will take him to a refreshingly cooler New England where he’s scheduled to speak at his beloved alma mater, Williams College. A shot rings out. At first no one thinks much about it, for it’s always noisy at Washington’s busy train station.
America’s experience with Islamic terrorism didn’t start
with 9/11.
America’s very first encounter with Radical Islam actually occurred as far back as 1784 when the merchant ship Betsey was attacked by Moroccan pirates off the coast of North Africa. The conflicts between Americans and the Barbary Pirates are known as the Barbary War, a war many modern Americans have forgotten or never knew about in the first place. Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates is an historical novel that brings to life that Forgotten War. Thomas Jefferson led the war against the Barbary Pirates.
Murder Mystery
The time is just before the ebook publishing craze when hardcover books were king and the book business as ruthless as it was exciting. Imagine the highly respected CEO of a giant New York publishing house being blackmailed by one of his own editors. Visualize that same editor found murdered in his office a few days after the blackmail demand. Imagine, too, the mounting evidence that gradually surfaces implicating the CEO. But things are not always what they appear to be. Halfway through the novel the reader learns who the real killer is. The reader also sees that the killer is getting away with murder. It's a roller-coaster ride as two NYPD detectives struggle to find out what the reader already knows. In the course of their investigations the detectives encounter additional corpses and a twist that you won't see coming. Venues include Manhattan, Westchester County, NY, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Time Travel and History
A time-travel adventure that just might make you a believer. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells was fun, as was the enjoyable A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle and Jack Finney's delightful Time and Again. If you enjoyed these books, you’ll definitely want to read Mission in Time. However, after reading Mission in Time, this might be the first time you actually find yourself believing in time travel.
Imagine being sent on a time-travel mission expecting to arrive in a certain period of time and finding yourself in a very different era—a major period in the history of the United States. Imagine finding yourself with people totally unfamiliar with things you’ve been accustomed to all your life: your skills, foods, views on sanitation, means of travel, kinds of recreation and even your vocabulary. Imagine, too, that despite your advantage over the people you meet in history, you find yourself learning as much from them as they learn from you. Whether you’re a time-travel aficionado or a lover of historic novels, you won’t be disappointed with Mission in Time.
Readers of Scott’s time-travel novel Mission in Time wrote that it was too bad he didn’t write a sequel. Well here it is, The Second Mission. The Second Mission takes off three years after Gil and Tom find themselves up 240 years back in time instead of the two years into the future they had expected to find themselves. Christopher Carver and Matthew Blair expect to benefit from what was learned from the first time-travel mission out of the secret government test facility in the Nevada desert. They fully expect the mission to be far more accurate than the first. But time travel isn’t easy, so you never know what can happen.
Imagine what it’s like for the time travelers (or chrononauts) when they find themselves with even more to contend with than their two predecessors. They find themselves in the middle of a war in an era when food, technology, sanitation, recreation and vocabulary are far different from what they’re used to in the 21st century.
Readers of Richard Scott’s first two time-travel novels, Mission in Time and The Second Mission, who are looking for answers and closure will be delighted with this final book in his Time-Travel Trilogy. Not only do his chrononauts go back to the American Revolution, but they have encounters with George Washington and other revolutionary stalwarts. They have also learned that they can do things with time travel that they couldn’t do in the first two books: Things that make this book even
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