Matthew Thomas

Interceptors is an exhilarating ride and front-row seat into the dangerous and harrowing work of law enforcement on America's southern border.Author Matthew Thomas pulls back the curtain and takes the reader on a rarely seen, eye-witness journey.Spanning over 29 years, Matthew's law enforcement career and immersive life in the Hispanic culture is an eye-opening, honest, and unprecedented look into the ruthless activities of dangerous cartel activity on our southern doorstep.From patrol to undercover work with gangs and drugs, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) to an interdiction team created to thwart, disrupt, and dismantle cartel activities, Matthew has a unique first-hand perspective not covered by the media or found within the politically charged rhetoric of warring political parties.Interceptors will keep readers on the edge of their seats in a page-turning, binge-worthy read about drug smuggling, human trafficking, and the unspeakable brutality of the Sinaloa cartel.Buckle up; it's one hell of a ride

Interceptors is an exhilarating ride and front-row seat into the dangerous and harrowing work of law enforcement on America's southern border.Author Matthew Thomas pulls back the curtain and takes the reader on a rarely seen, eye-witness journey.Spanning over 29 years, Matthew's law enforcement career and immersive life in the Hispanic culture is an eye-opening, honest, and unprecedented look into the ruthless activities of dangerous cartel activity on our southern doorstep.From patrol to undercover work with gangs and drugs, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) to an interdiction team created to thwart, disrupt, and dismantle cartel activities, Matthew has a unique first-hand perspective not covered by the media or found within the politically charged rhetoric of warring political parties.Interceptors will keep readers on the edge of their seats in a page-turning, binge-worthy read about drug smuggling, human trafficking, and the unspeakable brutality of the Sinaloa cartel.Buckle up; it's one hell of a ride

The instant New York Times bestseller The Washington Post calls a "stunning...superbly rendered" novel, and Entertainment Weekly describes as "a gripping family saga, maybe the best...since The Corrections." As an Irish immigrant in Queens in 1941, Eileen has dreamed of more in her life--but when she and her family seem to be moving closer to that dream, devastation hits and they must learn how to not only hold on to their reality, but to each other. Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on how much alcohol has been consumed. From an early age, Eileen wished that she lived somewhere else. She sets her sights on upper class Bronxville, New York, and an American Dream is born. Driven by this longing, Eileen places her stock and love in Ed Leary, a handsome young scientist, and with him begins a family. Over the years Eileen encourages her husband to want more: a better job, better friends, a better house. It slowly becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper, more incomprehensive psychological shift. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. Described by The New York Times Book Review as "A long, gorgeous epic, full of love and caring...one of the best novels you'll read this year," We Are Not Ourselves is a testament to our greatest desires and our greatest frailties. Through the lives of these characters, Thomas charts the story of the American Century. The result is, "stunning...The joys of this book are the joys of any classic work of literature--for that is what this is destined to become--superbly rendered small moments that capture both an individual life and the universality of that person's experience" (The Washington Post).

Adela never dreamed she would be helping a rogue NASA scientist try to save the International Space Station by building the world's first space drive. Growing up on the most isolated farm in central Florida, Adela's life is the definition of boring. Classmates whisper about the backwater lifestyle; her only trustworthy friends are her many animals. Then NASA's most Top-Secret project crash-lands on her pond, only to be promptly eaten by an alligator. With her best friend, a tuxedo cat named Louie, they find and raise an unlikely survivor. As the clock ticks down, Adela's love for animals and intense self-sufficiency are NASA's only hope for saving the Space Station, its astronauts, and the entire space program from fiery destruction. This book explores what might happen in the not-to-distant future because of two new areas of science: rapid genetic engineering (of ducks), and improved space propulsion. In the back are two science appendixes that accurately describe what these areas of science can do today. The first appendix is illustrated and fleshes out the science behind several important chapters. The second appendix provides detail for the two basic concepts that make up this story. We do have rapid genetic engineering now, with no end in sight for what it can accomplish. And there are a few smart, imaginative people working on real, no-kidding space drives, just like Mr. Scott's impulse engines on Star Trek. Could there be new physics that might say "Yes, that space drive actually should work?" Only young physicists exploring the unknown can answer that.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDNOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZENAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES A stunning, heartbreaking debut - 'We Are Not Ourselves' is both the intimate story of a family and an epic of the American Century.