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Appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction Unit, Judd Ryker?s mandate is to help the U.S. respond more quickly to foreign crises. But he hadn?t reckoned with the interdepartmental turf battles he?d face. Then comes the coup in Mali. He could prove his theory of the Golden Hour that in the hundred hours following a coup, there?s still a chance to reverse the chain of events. But in the real world, those hours move very, very quickly indeed.,
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Todd Moss, formerly a top U.S. State Department official, is a writer and policy analyst in Washington DC. His day job is running the Energy for Growth Hub, a global research network. Todd is also affiliated with the Center for Global Development, Rice University's Baker Institute, and the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines. Todd has previously worked at the World Bank, Georgetown University, and the London School of Economics. Todd writes thrillers in the early hours. His debut novel THE GOLDEN HOUR (Penguin's Putnam, 2014) follows diplomat Judd Ryker, who has 100 hours to reverse a coup in Mali, rescue a kidnapped Peace Corps volunteer, and prevent a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy. In MINUTE ZERO (2015) , Ryker fights to stop a dictator from stealing a violent election in Zimbabwe. In GHOSTS OF HAVANA (2016) , Ryker is dispatched on a secret mission to negotiate the release of four American soccer dads who were captured by the Cuban navy while fishing off the Florida Keys. THE SHADOW LIST (2017) takes Ryker deep into a murky web of Russian mobsters, Nigerian scammers, and corrupt American politicians. Watch this space for Todd's next thriller.(photo credit: Shawn Miller)