Novels by Richard Reid

 My first two novels are centered around the NASA space program, an arena in which I spent thirty-five years. My third novel is centered in the American legal system, where I spent twenty years, concurrent with my NASA work.

Extortion in space. In an extortion plot, a gang of Russian criminals threatens to destroy the International Space Station and its crew of three Americans. NASA scientist, Dr. Paul Winston, leader of an elite trouble-shooting team, spearheads a small clandestine operation to prevent the destruction.

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Action/Adventure. A space shuttle is launched with software intentionally corrupted, resulting in a failed abort attempt and crash in Florida. One crew member is killed, the others injured. Terry McGreggor, NASA software genius and former computer hacker, leads a NASA inside investigation to discover the cause and have explanations ready before releasing it to the press. The investigation takes Terry through deceptions within NASA and American industry, to connections with those who want onboard experiments destroyed, to the love and loss of a beautiful young woman, to an attempted coverup that Terry has to bring to the American people.

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Literary novel investigating the motives and character of people involved in a colossal personal injury litigation. Well-respected and highly ethical attorney, David Stanley, chief counsel for Sterling Insurance, has his value system challenged by the greed and fraud involved in a personal injury lawsuit against his company involving an auto/truck collision. With the company's future at stake in a twenty-five-million-dollar legal competition, David faces an assortment of characters seeking their own agenda. When they are met with the ironic circumstances of their involvement, fraudulent character features are forced to the surface in a race for their own personal gain. ISBN : 1-59926-070-0