Ryan Steck is the author of Fields of Fire, Lethal Range, Redd Christmas, Out for Blood, Gone Dark, Ted Bell’s Monarch, the forthcoming Alex Hawke thriller Ted Bell’s Warmonger, and is the co-author of The Second Son with Simon Gervais. He is also a freelance editor, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Real Book Spy, and has been praised as “One of the hardest working and fairest reviewers out there” by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline. Steck’s fifth Matthew Redd novel, Target Down, will be released in 2026.