By the Author - Behind the Scenes

My thrillers aren’t just fiction. They’re fueled by a lifetime of secrets I wasn’t allowed to share—until now.

For over twenty years, I led a double life. By day, I represented the U.S. government in civil litigation before Israeli courts. But behind that legal exterior, I was operating in the shadows—gathering intelligence for U.S. federal agencies in over thirty countries. Jet-lagged, adrenaline-charged, and always alert, I lived stories that sound fictional. Some were stranger than fiction. Some can never be told.

But five thrillers gave me a way to release the pressure valve. They became my outlet, a fictionalized echo of that high-stakes life. The enemy in those books—what I call the invisible “FOE,” or Forces of Evil—was my way of confronting the very real adversaries I faced out there, in the real world. 

The first spark came during a long, tense night in a distant hotel room. I was on assignment. My phone rang. It was my INTERPOL contact:
“You’ve been exposed. Stay put. We’ll extract you in the morning.”

Not exactly a lullaby.

Trapped, wired, and unable to sleep, I opened my laptop. What started as a distraction turned into a manuscript. Triple Identity poured out of me. That single night became the launchpad for the Dan Gordon thriller series. Four more followed, each one drawn from the raw material of close calls, coded meetings, and unspoken truths.

People often ask: “Did that really happen?”
Some reviewers said the books feel “too authentic.”
To that I say: thank you.
Are they true? Let’s just say… fiction can be a clever disguise.

Life lived out of a suitcase—never knowing if I was arriving or departing—gave me enough stories for ten novels. And that’s just the stuff I can talk about. But now it’s time to turn the page. Dan Gordon has retired—glass of Pinot Noir in hand—watching Daniella Gordon his younger sister forges her own trail in a world that once shut the gate on women.