J.R. Rogers is a novelist of 20th century foreign intrigue and espionage. Publisher's Weekly called his The Italian Couple a “Suspenseful combination romance and espionage thriller.” He has written eight novels in this genre.
He is also a short story writer a number of which have been published in various online and paperback publications.His interests include indie film and photography. His ninth and latest, An Assemblage of Spies is due out in April 2024.
A powerful period flavor embellishes this intriguing novel of deceit and espionage replete with the shocking depravity rampant in the insular Portuguese enclave of Lourenço Marques, the neutral colonial capital of Portuguese Mozambique, during the early years of World War Two.
An atmospheric historical thriller of subterfuge and illicit love with a menacing plot set in Mussolini’s Asmara, Italian Eritrea. Reviewed by Publisher's Weekly. "The novel’s pacing is skillful and precise, leading ultimately to an unforeseen and terrifically satisfying ending."
Cold War intrigue and espionage played out on the island of Cyprus and in the Soviet Union. An unconventional thriller set in 1974 turns on a Cypriot hit man hired by the CIA to assassinate a Soviet mole en route to Leningrad aboard a Soviet freighter.
A mixed theme anthology The Way Things Were is a first collection of narratives by this historical thriller novelist. Set both in the United States and in various parts of the world the author conjures up a broad range of unusual characters and plots often set in unforgiving and unfriendly worlds. Many of the narratives first appeared in various literary journals and or online.
Washington, DC, 1944: an OSS officer is dispatched on a secret mission to French Morocco aboard an Africa Squadron U.S. Navy blimp. On the ground in the coastal North African town of Port Lyautey – home to a U.S. Navy airfield – the OSS uncovers a wide-ranging spy network orchestrated from afar by a Nazi colonel from his headquarters in Casablanca.
A psychological spy thriller set in 1960 in the quiet South American capital of Montevideo, Uruguay an unconventional distant posting at the height of the Cold War.
The 1903 assassination of King Leopold II of Belgium in Dinard, France by an Italian anarchist and his flight to South America pursued by the Belgian Secret Service.