About Chuck Barrett
Award-winning author of the Jake Pendleton series—The Savannah Project, The Toymaker, Breach of Power, and DISRUPTION, as well as his 2015 award-winning blockbuster, BLOWN, the first book in his new Gregg Kaplan series. The second in the Kaplan series, Last Chance, was released in October 2018.
About Last Chance
Gregg Kaplan’s partner has vanished without a word.
He is inexplicably kept in the dark by his employer, the CIA, and ordered to stand down or face the consequences. Refusing to follow orders, Kaplan strikes out on his own in search of Isabella Hunt, the woman he is in love with.
Following a tip that led him across the country to a small town in Wyoming, he finds himself in trouble once again when two of the town’s bullies assault a young Native American woman. This time it lands him behind bars. Kaplan quickly learns that the men he just put in the hospital are the sons of a wealthy and politically connected land baron.
News Flash
ALERT! — LAST CHANCE won Finalist in the 2019 International Book Awards Thriller/Adventure category.
The Jake Pendleton series, (narrated by Scott Brick) and the Gregg Kaplan series, (narrated by Marc Vietor) are available in audiobook on Audible—Click here for details.
Next Event
Author Showcase
Saturday, November 16
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Loveland Public Library
300 North Adams
Loveland, CO 80537
Chuck's Blog
Gregg Kaplan, book 2—LAST CHANCE
After months—strike that—years of being bombarded with emails wanting to know about when the Gregg Kaplan sequel to BLOWN was going to come out, I felt I should listen a little closer to my readers wants and desires. Admittedly, I had struggled for an idea for the next Kaplan book seeing as I had lavished…
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BLOWN—Gregg Kaplan series, Book 1
Waaaay back in the beginning as I was in the editing phase my first book, The Savannah Project, I told my editors that my plan, after two Jake books, was to start a spinoff series with Gregg Kaplan. The main reason was that Kaplan was such a strong character, I felt he deserved a series…
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DISRUPTION—Jake Pendleton. Book 4
The fourth book in the Jake Pendleton series, DISRUPTION, my most recent and was my most difficult book to write. The information pertaining to the subject matter was so complex that, at times, I came close to throwing in the towel. But, the result, has earned enormous praise from the publishing industry’s major review houses.…
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