Peter Falk – författare

Peter Falk came to prominence as an actor in 1956 in the highly successful off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards. Although he worked continuously for the next three years, bouncing from one off-Broadway theatre to the next, a theatrical agent advised him not to expect much work in motion pictures because of his glass eye. Later, a talent scout for Columbia Pictures described Falk as a second John Garfield, but Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia Pictures, unfortunately disagreed: 'For the same price, I can get an actor with two eyes.' But in 1958, Twentieth Century Fox came to New York to make a movie - Murder Inc - and Falk landed a juicy role for which he received rave reviews and, incredibly, was nominated for an Academy Award. He was then nominated again for his second film, Pocketful of Miracles starring Bette Davis. Falk went on to become a favourite among filmgoers, yet it was through television that he reached his widest audience as Lt. Columbo, winning four Emmys for the role. Interestingly, Columbo's raincoat came out of Falk's bedroom closet. He bought it years before he became an actor. He's been quoted as saying, 'I wanted to wear something people would remember. Bottom line, it's the world's most famous raincoat.'Just One More Thing is pure Peter Falk, and reads as if he were sitting next to you, chuckling as he recalls his remarkable past.

In Just One More Thing, Peter Falk , award-winning actor , takes us behind-the-scenes into his professional and private life. Starting in Hartford, where he worked as a management analyst for the Connecticut State Budget Bureau, Falk was no more successful than at an earlier attempt to work with the CIA. He then turned to an old college interest: acting. Falk came to prominence in 1956 in the successful Off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh. Although he worked continuously for the next three years, a theatrical agent advised him not to expect much work in motion pictures because of his glass eye. Surgeons had removed his right eye, along with a malignant tumor, when he was three years old. But in 1958, Falk landed his first movie, Murder Incorporated, and was nominated for an Oscar. A Pocketful of Miracles garnered his second Oscar nomination, but it was through his collaboration with filmmaker John Cassavetes that Falk entered into his most creative period in 1970 when movies such as A Woman Under the Influence helped launch the independent film movement. Through television, however, Falk reached his widest audience , portraying the inimitable Lieutenant Columbo throughout the 1970s and winning four Emmys.

Nairobi, 1998. When the U.S. Embassy explodes, ambitious journalist Samantha Conover sees one thing: her moment.Defying her network and ignoring every warning, Sami chases a story no one else will touch — a militant group insisting they had no role in the attack. It's the kind of scoop that makes careers.It nearly ends hers.Ambushed and taken hostage alongside her team, Sami endures eleven days of brutal captivity that push her to the edge of survival. When Army special forces pull her out, she emerges broken — and suddenly, undeniably famous.The story she survived becomes the story the world can't stop watching. Overnight, Sami is catapulted from ambitious news correspondent to national name. The nightly news desk she has always wanted is finally within reach.But fame is complicated. So is recovery.Battling the ghosts of a turbulent past — old demons, a fractured family, an estranged father — Sami tries to hold herself together long enough to capitalize on the moment she's waited her whole career for. And then a man enters her life. Quiet. Steady. Nothing like anyone she's ever known.She doesn't know who he really is.She doesn't know that the story isn't over.She doesn't know that someone has been watching her very carefully — and that the real operation began the moment she was rescued.The Next Sandcastle spans from the rubble of Nairobi to the morning of September 11, 2001. By the final page, nothing is what it appeared to be.A true hunter never lets you know you're the prey.For fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Daniel Silva. Rooted in the real history of one of the most consequential decades in modern intelligence.