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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Western North Carolina resident Jon Michael Riley, author of fiction novels based on major events in recent history, has released the second book in his Channey Moran action/thriller series. Photo Shoot brings the reader face to face with Somali pirates during the kidnapping of a group of American tourists. Propelled into a gripping evaluation of his life, Channey must survive a rescue mission headed by the notorious Roy Roy while deciding to what lengths he will go to help people he doesn’t even know.

The true story behind this fictional rendition began when the 2009 hijacking of the MV Maersk Alabama caught Riley’s attention in 2010. Inspired to write Channey’s next adventure, Riley investigated many resources including a memoir from survivors of a lengthy stay in the Somali bush and Jay Bahadur’s book about his time spent among Somali pirates. For most anyone living in the Western Hemisphere, East African pirates and criminals are distant, arcane problems irrelevant to daily life. Out of sight, out of mind. Riley’s new novel sheds light on the victims’ point of view when kidnapped, brutalized, and held captive by pirates during a time when pirates are terrorizing every sort of vessel, small or large, in the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean after no American vessel had been seized by pirates since the early part of the nineteenth century.

Riley’s fourth book, Photo Shoot, is book two in the Channey Moran Thriller Series. Available in eBook and paperback at most online retailers and coming soon to a bookstore near you!

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AUTHOR BIO Jon Michael Riley is a veteran New York studio and location photographer. Though retired from his studio on 37th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues, his commercial work is syndicated worldwide by Getty Images and his artwork is represented in private collections and museums to this day.

Riley relocated to a mountain cove outside of Asheville, NC in 1991 and turned his creative eye toward writing truth based fiction novels inspired by major events in recent history.

Jon Michael Riley

BOOK LIST/BIOS The Irish File: Images from a Land of Grace

Hardcover; Published by Rizzoli

Riley's work captures the many facets of Ireland: its mystical nature, beautiful landscape, and rich historical and religious culture.

Searching for Cool, Praying for Heat

Available in eBook & Paperback

A novel of love, desire, loyalty, and honor that affects the O'Rourkes, a relocated New England textile family who face entrenched white supremacy in a small North Carolina cotton mill town in 1960.

BOOK LIST/BIOS Dream the Dawn (Book One in the Channey Moran Thriller Series) Available in eBook & Paperback

Devastated by the death of both his father and a lover, New York photographer, Channey Moran, accepts an easy assignment in Ireland. He soon becomes accidentally enmeshed in a bizarre ship hijacking by ecomercenaries led by an eccentric ex-CIA operative who fascinates the world's news media while horrifying Big Energy.

Photo Shoot (Book Two in the Channey Moran Thriller Series) Available in eBook & Paperback

When Somali pirates hijack an American sailboat with two couples on board, wellknown New York photographer Channey Moran has no idea he will soon play a part in a dangerous rescue mission led by a former CIA operative and linguist hiding in Belfast from the CIA and Interpol.

TESTIMONIALS “An

intriguing read from front to back, this book is great for any history buff…”

“ …an enthralling examination of what life was like in the south during the 60s…” “…interested in what the American South was like when the Civil Rights Movement was starting, look into this one…”

“A love and adventure story set on the Irish coast, the novel—its scenery, its adventure, its characters—drew me in immediately, and there I stayed.” “…highly recommend the book to anyone eager for great writing, romance, and suspense.”

“I literally could not put this awesome book down without finishing it! Then, I was so excited after reading it that I couldn't sleep! Very much worth a sleepless night! Can't wait for the next one!”

“The subject of this story, big oil, could not be more timely, or perhaps that should be timeless given that issues such as the Dakota Access Pipeline will not be the last we hear of these threats to our planet and people.”

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