Brett Battles

Brett Battles
BornRidgecrest, California, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
Period2007–present
Genrethriller, suspense
Website
brettbattles.com

Brett Battles is an American author and computer engineer from Los Angeles, California.

Publishing History

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While employed at Dell Computer, Battles published his first novel, The Cleaner (2007). The novel introduced recurring character Jonathan Quinn, a freelance intelligence operative named for Liam Quinn, an executive at Dell who had served as a mentor to Battles. The Cleaner was nominated for the Barry Award for Best Thriller.[1]

His second novel, The Deceived (2008), won the Barry Award for Best Thriller.[1]

His third novel, Shadow of Betrayal, continues the adventures of freelance operative and "cleaner" Jonathan Quinn. Shadow of Betrayal was published in the United Kingdom under the title The Unwanted (Preface Publishing, 2009).

This fourth novel, The Silenced, was released by Dell in 2011. In the same year, he wrote the computer manufacturer's internal hardware manual.

Bibliography

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Jonathan Quinn Series

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# Title Publisher Date ISBN
1 The Cleaner Delacorte Press 2007 978-0-44-024370-0
2 The Deceived Delacorte Press 2008 978-0-38-534157-8
3 The Unwanted Delacorte Press 2009 978-0-38-534158-5
4 The Silenced Dell Publishing 2011 978-0-44-024567-4
5 The Destroyed CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2012 978-1-47-763551-3
6 The Collected CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2012 978-1-48-005538-4
7 The Enraged CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013 978-1-49-055702-1
8 The Discarded CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014 978-1-49-732447-3
9 The Buried CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2015 978-1-50-874694-2
10 The Unleashed CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016 978-1-53-031430-0
11 The Aggrieved CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2017 978-1-54-673146-7
12 The Fractured CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2018 978-1-72-030827-0
13 The Damaged Independently Published 2019 978-1-07-750454-7
14 The Unknown Independently Published 2020 978-1-65-387835-2
15 The Vanished Independently Published 2020 979-8-57-559949-4

Note: In the US, The Unwanted was sold under the title Shadow of Betrayal.

Logan Harper Thrillers

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# Title Publisher Date ISBN
1 Little Girl Gone CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2011 978-1-46-118928-2
2 Every Precious Thing CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2011 978-1-46-806402-5

Project Eden Thrillers

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# Title Publisher Date ISBN
1 Sick CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2012 978-1-46-118926-8
2 Exit 9 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2012 978-1-47-500956-9
3 Pale Horse CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2012 978-1-47-760883-8
4 Ashes CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2012 978-1-48-115833-6
5 Eden Rising CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013 978-1-49-288995-3
6 Dream Sky CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014 978-1-49-475305-4
7 Down CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2014 978-1-50-336680-0

Rewinder Series

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# Title Publisher Date ISBN
1 Rewinder 47north 2015 978-1-47-783083-3
2 Destroyer 47north 2016 978-1-50-395159-4
3 Survivor Createspace Independent Publishing Platform 2017 978-1-54-313151-2

Night Man Chronicles

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# Title Publisher Date ISBN
1 Night Man Independently Published 2019 978-1-79-655055-9
2 Insidious Independently Published 2020 979-8-64-413501-1
3 Mercy Independently Published 2021 979-8-50-039637-2

Stand-Alone Novels

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Title Publisher Date ASIN/ISBN
The Pull of Gravity Amazon Digital Services, Inc. 2011 B005H1O4DG
No Return Preface Publishing 2012 978-1-84-809290-7
Mine CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016 978-1-53-506715-7

Short stories

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  • 2008 – "Perfect Gentleman" (published in Killer Year edited by Lee Child – St. Martin's Press)
  • 2011 – "Just Another Job – A Jonathan Quinn Story" (published by Slam Bang Stories, Available on Amazon Kindle)
  • 2011 – "Off the Clock A Jonathan Quinn Story" – May 20, 2011

Novella

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July 10, 2011– Becoming Quinn (A Jonathan Quinn Novel): A prequel to the series

See also

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  • Rewinder

References

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  1. ^ a b "Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine- Barry Awards". Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
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