Gary Grossman Books in Order

If you want White House intrigue: Executive Actions → Executive Treason → Executive Command → Executive Force
If you want globe-trotting espionage: Red Hotel → Red Deception → Red Chaos → Red Ultimatum
If you want historical mystery with science: Old Earth
If you want a treasure-hunt thriller: The Midas Touch

Gary Grossman grew up in Hudson, New York, and started early. At 15 he was already working as a rock disc jockey at WHUC, learning how to hold an audience before most people have picked a major. He later studied communications at Emerson College in Boston and earned a master's degree in urban affairs from Boston University.

Media came first.

Grossman worked at WBZ in Boston, covered presidential campaigns, wrote for The Boston Globe, and became the television critic and media columnist for the Boston Herald American. His freelance pieces also appeared in The New York Times and magazines. Along the way he taught journalism and media at Emerson, Boston University, USC, and later Loyola Marymount, which says a lot about how comfortably he moves between newsroom work and the classroom.

Television widened the lane. Over the years he produced more than 10,000 television episodes and specials for more than 40 networks, including NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, PBS, History, National Geographic, Food Network, and Discovery. He also helped formulate, program, or launch channels such as HGTV, FitTV, National Geographic Channel, and The Africa Channel. The work brought multiple Emmy Awards and a long list of other production honors, but just as important, it gave him a reporter's habit of digging for the real story underneath the official version.

That habit became the engine of his fiction.

When Grossman turned to novels, he did not leave politics, media, or power behind. Executive Actions introduced Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke and dropped him into a presidential campaign turned violent. Executive Treason, Executive Command, and later Executive Force kept building on that foundation, mixing White House pressure, intelligence work, and plausible national security threats. Readers who like these books usually respond to the insider texture, the fast pace, and the sense that the nightmare on the page is only half a step removed from the headlines.

Some obsessions take their time.

As a kid he collected rocks and fossils around Hudson and stayed up listening to distant stations on a shortwave radio. Those old interests, geology, astronomy, history, and the thrill of far-off voices, later fed into Old Earth. That novel follows paleontologists Quinn McCauley and Katrina Alpert after they uncover a secret linked to Galileo, and it shows another side of Grossman. He likes big ideas, but he likes them best when ordinary people have to survive them.

He has never stayed in just one corner of the shelf. The Red Hotel novels, written with Edwin Fuller, go broader and more international through Dan Reilly, a hotel executive with intelligence ties who keeps getting pulled into geopolitical firestorms. Then The Midas Touch turned toward treasure-hunt adventure, the Rosetta Stone, and a modern conspiracy with very old roots. Grossman has also written nonfiction, including Saturday Morning TV and Superman: Serial to Cereal, books that fit neatly with his long interest in how media is made and remembered.

These days he is based in Los Angeles with his wife, writer and producer Helene Seifer. He continues to teach graduate film and television at Loyola Marymount, and he serves in leadership and advisory roles connected to Emerson and Boston University. The thread through all of it is pretty clear. He likes research, he likes systems, and he likes asking what happens when those systems start to crack.