Thank you for joining me on this journey through the shadowed world of global espionage in the Corey Pearson: CIA Spymaster Series. I’m grateful you’ve chosen to spend time in this world with me.

While these stories are works of fiction, they are grounded in years of ongoing interaction with the intelligence community. My affiliation with the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, along with countless conversations with retired and active U.S. intelligence professionals, has been invaluable. Those exchanges have helped shape Corey Pearson’s world and bring authenticity to the tradecraft, operational challenges, and moral dilemmas faced by intelligence officers.

I hope you find Corey Pearson’s latest mission as engaging to read as it was for me to write. Your support is what keeps these stories coming. If you’re willing, I’d truly appreciate your feedback after reading. Reviews help other readers discover the series, and they push me to go further and raise the bar with each new installment.

Thank you again for your support. Here’s to many more adventures with Corey and his team.

Until next time,

Robert Morton

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About the Author

Researching and writing about the U.S. Intelligence Community is more than a passion for Robert Morton. It’s a calling.

A member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, Morton regularly participates in seminars and discussions with intelligence professionals in and around Washington, DC. These experiences inform his writing and drive his goal of creating an authentic and compelling spy thriller series in Corey Pearson: CIA Spymaster.

Morton consults with 27 intelligence scholars and field operatives, both retired and active, to ensure factual accuracy and realism. Among them is Harry Mason, a retired CIA officer with 35 years of service and recipient of the CIA Intelligence Medal of Merit and the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement.

His research has also included interviews with individuals connected to some of the most well-known intelligence stories of the modern era. One such source is James Marcinkowski, a former classmate of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Plame’s career and the undercover leak that inspired the film Fair Game provide valuable context for Morton’s work. Marcinkowski and Plame trained together at “The Farm,” the CIA’s legendary training facility, as detailed in Mission of Vengeance.

In addition to his fiction, Morton has written editorials and articles for numerous publications, including the Gannett Newspaper Network of Central Ohio, the Tallahassee Democrat, Coshocton Tribune, Zanesville Gazette, Fremont News-Messenger, Port Clinton News Herald, Ashland Daily Tidings, Lifestyle 2000 magazine, and California’s The Press-Enterprise, serving Los Angeles and San Diego Counties.

Through both fiction and nonfiction, Robert Morton continues to explore the hidden world of intelligence, offering readers stories grounded in realism, tension, and hard-earned insight.

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