Rob Armstrong

Former CBS newsman and retired college journalism professor, Rob Armstrong, has created a blistering new page-turner: BLACK FORCE, the ninth book in his Old Spy thriller series The quirky cyberspy, hacker and rock-n-roll expert, M.C. Trudeau, is back and leads her new crew of hackers, a dronester and a video expert for Britain’s MI6. Retired CIA agent, MacKenzie Roberts, makes a return appearance. And the plot sizzles with assassinations, Russian mercenaries, ransomware attacks and international intrigue.

BLACK FORCE follows Armstrong's previous Old Spy thriller, TRADECRAFT and his stunning fictional examination of white nationalism in the US and Britain, THE CRUSADE (A Novel of Politics and Hate). The storyline involves a group of unlikely allies on both sides of the Atlantic who join forces to solve several violent, racially motivated crimes.

The popular historical mystery, THE COLD CASE OF FATHER BRENDAN, was set, in part, in 1976 during the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It culminates with the quest of an American TV journalist to solve the case forty years later. The book also explores the social, political and sectarian civil war, urban conflict, wanton mayhem and political instability from 1968 through 1998, euphemistically known as the Troubles.

Among his seventeen books are the other Old Spy thrillers -- SISTERS OF THE SWORD, HACKED, DRONE, A LEGION OF MARTYRS, WHO ICED FAT PAULI, A SUMMER OF DECEPTION and, the first in the series, THE OLD SPY. All have received excellent reviews. All are as fresh as today's news and one reader, a former international journalist, said the books are "frighteningly realistic."

His non-fiction books include the popular travel guide GOLFING IN IRELAND (3rd Edition) and two widely adopted college-level journalism textbooks, COVERING GOVERNMENT and COVERING POLITICS.

Armstrong's CBS News career spanned nearly twenty-five years and included four presidential campaigns, nine presidential nominating conventions, hurricanes, earthquakes, riots, the "troubles" in Northern Ireland, Middle-East peace talks. international summitry and the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

After he left CBS News, he was a professor of journalism at Flagler College, in St. Augustine, Florida, for thirteen years. He lives in St. Augustine and Asheville, North Carolina.