Ted Bell
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Ted Bell is an American
author
of suspense
novels such as Hawke and Assassin, Pirate, and Spy. He is best known for his New York Times Bestselling series of spy thriller novels featuring the character Alex Hawke. Before becoming a novelist, he was President and Chief Creative Officer of the Leo Burnett Company. He was later named Vice-Chairman of the Board and World-Wide Creative Director of Young & Rubicam, one of the world's largest advertising agencies. At age 25, he sold his first Hollywood screenplay, 'Screamathon' to producers Joel Michaels and Garth Drabinsky.
Bell is a graduate of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, with a B.A. in English. He is a former member of the college's Board of Trustees. He also holds a Doctor of
Fine Arts degree, honoris causis, from Kendall College in Michigan. In 2009, he was awarded the Amherst Humanitarian of the Year Award by the 'Hope For Tomorrow Foundation' in New York.
He serves on the Advisory Board at General Washington's home at Mount Vernon under former Secretary of the Army, Togo West. For a brief time, he was an advisor to the United States State Department.
Bell's latest work in the Alexander Hawke series of spy novels is Warlord, released in 2010, which revolves around a vendetta against the British royal family beginning with the 1979 murder of Lord Mountbatten. His previous work, Tsar, dealt with the rise of the 'New Russia', the return of the KGB
and the new 'Evil Empire
.'
Bell's World War II time-travel adventure novel, Nick of Time, was published in a new hardcover illustrated edition by St. Martin's Press in May, 2008. It features the character Nick McIver, along with Lord Richard Hawke, Archibald "Gunner" Steele, Kate McIver (Nick's younger sister), Commander Hobbes (Lord Hawke's colleague, a brilliant weapons designer), the murderous pirate captain Billy Blood, and his cohort Snake Eye.
The sequel to Nick of Time was published in hardcover by St. Martins early in 2010. Entitled, The Time Pirate, it deals with the Nazi invasion of the Channel Islands and Nick McIver's role in George Washington's victory over Cornwallis at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. It debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List for Children at #6.
Ted lives and works in Palm Beach, Florida and Aspen, Colorado.
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Author
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of suspense
Suspense
Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead-up to a big event or dramatic...
novels such as Hawke and Assassin, Pirate, and Spy. He is best known for his New York Times Bestselling series of spy thriller novels featuring the character Alex Hawke. Before becoming a novelist, he was President and Chief Creative Officer of the Leo Burnett Company. He was later named Vice-Chairman of the Board and World-Wide Creative Director of Young & Rubicam, one of the world's largest advertising agencies. At age 25, he sold his first Hollywood screenplay, 'Screamathon' to producers Joel Michaels and Garth Drabinsky.
Bell is a graduate of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, with a B.A. in English. He is a former member of the college's Board of Trustees. He also holds a Doctor of
Fine Arts degree, honoris causis, from Kendall College in Michigan. In 2009, he was awarded the Amherst Humanitarian of the Year Award by the 'Hope For Tomorrow Foundation' in New York.
He serves on the Advisory Board at General Washington's home at Mount Vernon under former Secretary of the Army, Togo West. For a brief time, he was an advisor to the United States State Department.
Bell's latest work in the Alexander Hawke series of spy novels is Warlord, released in 2010, which revolves around a vendetta against the British royal family beginning with the 1979 murder of Lord Mountbatten. His previous work, Tsar, dealt with the rise of the 'New Russia', the return of the KGB
KGB
The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...
and the new 'Evil Empire
Evil empire
The phrase evil empire was applied to the Soviet Union especially by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities, in calling for a rollback strategy that would, in his words,...
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Bell's World War II time-travel adventure novel, Nick of Time, was published in a new hardcover illustrated edition by St. Martin's Press in May, 2008. It features the character Nick McIver, along with Lord Richard Hawke, Archibald "Gunner" Steele, Kate McIver (Nick's younger sister), Commander Hobbes (Lord Hawke's colleague, a brilliant weapons designer), the murderous pirate captain Billy Blood, and his cohort Snake Eye.
The sequel to Nick of Time was published in hardcover by St. Martins early in 2010. Entitled, The Time Pirate, it deals with the Nazi invasion of the Channel Islands and Nick McIver's role in George Washington's victory over Cornwallis at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. It debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List for Children at #6.
Ted lives and works in Palm Beach, Florida and Aspen, Colorado.