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John G. Bluck

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Mystery/thriller author John G. Bluck recently (December 2022) signed a seven-year literary contract with Wolfpack Publishing doing business as Rough Edges Press. The first five novels in Bluck's Luke Ryder series have been published, and a sixth book is being written.

“We’re excited to be taking on Bluck’s Luke Ryder series,” said Patience Bramlett, an editor at Rough Edges Press. “These exquisite crime thrillers offer a refreshing spin on the over-inflated thriller genre—in the best way possible.”

The first book in the series, “Death in the Holler,” was previously published, but was re-released July 4, 2023, with a new cover under the Rough Edges Press imprint. The Luke Ryder fictional character is a Kentucky deputy sheriff. This novel is t Mystery/thriller author John G. Bluck recently (December 2022) signed a seven-year literary contract with Wolfpack Publishing doing business as Rough Edges Press. The first five novels in Bluck's Luke Ryder series have been published, and a sixth book is being written.

“We’re excited to be taking on Bluck’s Luke Ryder series,” said Patience Bramlett, an editor at Rough Edges Press. “These exquisite crime thrillers offer a refreshing spin on the over-inflated thriller genre—in the best way possible.”

The first book in the series, “Death in the Holler,” was previously published, but was re-released July 4, 2023, with a new cover under the Rough Edges Press imprint. The Luke Ryder fictional character is a Kentucky deputy sheriff. This novel is the story of how Ryder solves a murder that takes place on a Kentucky farm food plot.

The second book, “Murder at NASA,” was released July 25, 2023. Ryder goes undercover at a NASA center in California to investigate a cold case murder. The third book, “Mayhem at Sea,” a thriller, was published on Aug. 15, 2023. While on an Alaska vacation cruise, Ryder deals with pirates who hijack the ship and demand ransom payments. Both the second and third books won Public Safety Writers Association awards in 2023. The fourth book, Pigeons of Death, about drug smuggling by use of carrier pigeons, was published in 2024. The fifth book, Headless in London, released in February 2025, is a murder mystery, which is also a tale of espionage.

Each book is available for purchase on Amazon. Booksellers may obtain paperback copies from IngramSpark or by emailing orders@wolfpackpublishing.com.

Bluck retired from NASA as a public affairs officer. Previously, he was the Chief of Imaging Technology at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.

Before that, he worked at NASA Lewis (now Glenn) Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, where he produced numerous NASA documentaries for television. Earlier in his career, he was a broadcast engineer for the ABC radio network at WMAL-AM/FM, Washington, DC.

At WMAL-TV (now WJLA-TV), in Washington he was a news film cameraman who covered local news, crime, sports, and politics including Watergate. In 1976 he was named the National Press Photographer Association runner-up cameraman of the year in the Northeast. In addition, he was a member of the White House News Photographers’ Association.

During the Vietnam War he was an Army journalist at Ft. Lewis, Washington.

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I hope you are enjoying my novel, "Pigeons of Death." Drug smuggling by carrier pigeons takes place in this tale of murder and deceit.
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