Road to research
Local author and Tribune editor, Dana Haynes, visits exotic locations for work on 'Sirocco'
I'm thrilled to announce that my new thriller, "Sirocco" (Blackstone Publishing, $16.99), hit the stands Tuesday, Jan. 19. It's my ninth published novel, and the second starring Michael Finnigan and Katalin Fiero Dahar, following their 2019 debut in "St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking."
The editor of the Metro Life section has graciously offered me this space to tout my book.
Before I do, just a quick aside. When I was 20, I wanted to be either a newspaper journalist or a novelist. Today, I'm both, making me, by far, the luckiest guy I've ever met. My work at the Portland Tribune and the Pamplin Media Group has been doubly rewarding this past year, as everyone from the publishers to the ad reps, from circulation to the production crew, came together to provide excellent journalism in the face of a pandemic, a recession, weeks and months of emotional protests about systemic racism (which often were marred by violent attacks on the city), devastating wildfires and the most emotionally fraught national election of our lifetime. I'm so proud to be here.