Works by
Robert Coram
(Writer)

Fiction

• Running Dead (1993)
  Tony the Dreamer was a master terrorist and sexual psychopath...a serial killer who combined his bloody business with perverted pleasures. His ravished and slain victims littered the cityscape of Atlanta in the throes of a national political race. Tony was assigned to steal the deadly damaging secret files on a top senatorial candidate.
  
  Homicide Detective Jeremiah Buie was a legend of lethal efficiency. He would—and did—do anything to get his man, even if he left the rule books in shreds and his superiors in shock.
  
  The killer and the cop—they were worthy of each other. The only question was: which of them was better at the hard-ball game they played for keeps?

• Kill the Angels (1996)
  As the city of Atlanta readies itself for the Summer Olympics, a psychopathic madman is playing his own games. Two college women have been assaulted, the incidents hushed up by nervous officials. When a third, more brutal attack occurs, the police can no longer afford a quiet investigation. Enter Nigel Trent, a talented police detective left shattered by a devastating crime
  
  Then the first body is found, and Nigel realizes the killer is becoming more dangerous, and much more violent. With City Hall and the press breathing hotly down Trent's neck, the tension mounts as the killer sets his sights on the person who means the most to Trent: his unsuspecting daughter.

• Atlanta Heat (1997)
  THE HOMICIDE
  To the world, he has everything: success, wealth, and a stunning wife. But behind the $2,000 suit and dazzling smile is a man driven by a monstrous rage he cannot control. And when his fury ignites at a local convenience store, Colin Biddle, Atlanta's most famous crime reporter, pulls out his Walther .22 and pops two slugs into his unsuspecting victims' faces.
  
  THE HUNT
  C.R. Payne is an ambitious black detective who's just been handed his first big case. But something's strange about this double homicide—an apparent robbery gone horribly wrong. One person is willing to help him. His name is Colin Biddle, a man with all the savvy and downtown connections a rookie needs. A man who has killed before—and will kill again.
  
  THE HEAT
  The game of cat-and-mouse has begun. The killer is on the inside. The cop is on the outside. With an enraged public demanding justice and the evidence mounting, the heat is coming down. And one man is going to pay—with his life...

• DeadSouth (1999)
  Temporarily relieved from homicide detail for making the wrong politicians mad, police detective C. R. Payne is forced to work undercover in the seediest hangouts in Atlanta. Pretty tame stuff-until one of the bar's clientele is found dead in a nearby motel. Payne takes the case when he uncovers the victim's powerful political connections, figuring that solving the murder is his ticket back to the job he loves. But there are a few things Payne didn't figure on. Like the FBI. And international arms dealers. And a merciless trained killer who will stop at nothing to finish the job he's started..

Narcs Series

1. Narcs (1988)
   Nick Brown. He looked as mild as a bookkeeper, but this Commander of the Narcotics Squad was the ingenious brains behind his agents' every act of daring and violence.
   
   Lance Cunningham. He'd pull anything to nail the bad guys, and the wilder and weirder the move, the more he dug it.
   
   Mike love. He'd fly anywhere to give a taste of terror to the drug planes that made a mockery of borders and a joke of the law.
   
   Darby DuPree. She'd lure any drug predator into her arms, using sex as the ultimate entrapment scam.
   
   No matter how or where they operated...they all had their lives on the line as they teamed up against the biggest drug deal--and the most explosive, cut-throat circle of traffickers—of all time...

2. America's Heros (1990)
   The fishermen of Everglades City, Florida are using their crab boats and mullet skiffs to smuggle tons of marijuana to Miami.
   
   The President of the United States sends in a DEA task force to make a few arrests and get out of town. That leaves it to Nick Brown and the Narcs to go at it alone on their toughest case yet. Their targets are not foreign smugglers, but Americans who have declared war on their own country. It's time for the Narcs to play hardball...

3. Drug Warriors (1989)
   A straight arrow strategic planner named Nick Brown. A way out maverick name Lance Cunningham. A brainy lady named Kimberly McBride. And a ferocious flyboy named Mike Love.
   
   Their battlefield is wherever drugs are smuggled and sold--from a Caribbean paradise of corruption where divers and dopers rub flesh, to a South Florida of luxury estates for the rich and lavish rewards for the ruthless.
   
   And now their enemy is the biggest importer in the business, the man known as the Doctor, who has the power and knowledge, the money and muscle to laugh at the law, as he covers America with a blizzard of snow...

Non-fiction

• Caribbean Time Bomb: The United States' Complicity in the Corruption of Antigua (1993)

• Nobody's Child: A Woman's Abusive Past and the Inspiring Dream That Led Her to Rescue the Street Children of Saigon (1994) by Christina Noble with Robert Coram

• Bridge Across My Sorrows (1995) by Christina Noble with Robert Coram

• Caribbean Time Bomb (1995)
  Robert Coram has been visiting Antigua since 1982, when, as a newspaper reporter, he broke the story that Robert Vesco had found sanctuary on the island. Because of the many times he has revisited the island since then, and because of his exhaustive research and wide-ranging contacts, the State Department once told him, "You are the institutional memory of Antigua. You know more about the island than we do."

• Bass Master Shaw Grigsby: Notes on Fishing and Life (1998) by Shaw Grigsby with Robert Coram
  The bass is the ultimate American fish, flourishing from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Mexico to Canada and everywhere in between. Bass fishing is bigger than golf and tennis combined, with more than 30 million anglers matching wits with this canny and aggressive prey. For some, it's a beloved pastime; for others it's a consuming passion. For Shaw Grigsby, it's nothing less than a way of life.
  
  He's a legendary figure in the enormous fraternity of bass anglers, a veteran of eight BASS Masters Classics, the sport's most prestigious event. He's won five major tournaments along with dozens of other competitions, and taken home more than a million dollars in prize money. He's a consummate professional -- and once you nibble at his irresistible book, he'll hook you just as surely as the bass he stalks so skillfully.
  
  Bass Master Shaw Grigsby is Shaw Grigsby at his best -- and when it comes to bass, nobody's better. Even the most seasoned angler will find tips and strategies galore, on everything from fine-tuning a lure to thinking like a fish, and his soft-spoken, infectious enthusiasm will catch the imagination of newcomers everywhere. You'll learn where to find the fish in any kind of water and any kind of weather: how to sense the patterns that consistently produce results: what casting technique works best in any given conditions: when to coax a bass and when to challenge him: and even why a handsaw can make the difference between a disappointing day and a world-class weigh-in.
  
  Shaw Grigsby shares his extraordinary fishing expertise with a modesty and generosity that's all too rare in today's hyper, high-pressure world, but he does something more. In telling his own story and those of other anglers he's known in his long career, he works a very special kind of magic that combines the spirit of a true sportsman with a deep respect for nature. And as he teaches you just about everything there is to know about the art of bass fishing, he'll teach you more than a little about life itself.
  
  Only a handful of anglers are lucky enough to enjoy a day on the water with Shaw Grigsby, but in its wonderful mix of lessons and lore, excitement and sheer exhilaration. Bass Master Shaw Grigsby really is the next best thing to being there.

• Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (2004)
  A great American hero-a 20th-century warrior and military strategist who lived outside the spotlight but whose work has been enormously influential-is brought brilliantly to life in this acclaimed biography. John Boyd was the finest fighter pilot in American history. From the proving ground of the Korean War, he went on to win notoriety as the instructor who defeated-in less than 40 seconds-every pilot who challenged him. But what made Boyd a man for the ages was what happened after he left the cockpit. He transformed the way military aircraft-in particular the F-15 and F-16-were designed with his revolutionary Energy-Maneuverability Theory. Boyd dedicated his later years to a radical theory of conflict that was largely ignored during Boyd's lifetime, but that is now widely considered to be the most influential thinking about conflict since Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

• American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day (2007)
  During the course of his military career, Bud Day won every available combat medal, escaped death on no less than seven occasions, and spent 67 months as a POW in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, along with John McCain. Despite sustained torture, Day would not break. He became a hero to POWs everywhere--a man who fought without pause, not a prisoner of war, but a prisoner at war.
  
  Upon his return, passed over for promotion to Brigadier General, Day retired. But years later, with his children grown and a lifetime of service to his country behind him, he would engage in another battle, this one against an opponent he never had expected: his own country. On his side would be the hundreds of thousands of veterans who had fought for America only to be betrayed. And what would happen next would make Bud Day an even greater legend.