Spenser for Hire: Author Ace Atkins of the Spenser detective novels

The Bureau with Frank Figliuzzi

Frank Figliuzzi

News, True Crime

4.9 • 751 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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As a kid, Ace Atkins consumed the Spenser series of detective novels by Robert Parker. As an adult, Atkins has written ten of the Spenser novels, and is working on his 30th book. Atkins joins us from Oxford, MS., to talk about writing novels, true crime reporting, and why he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Follow Frank’s Guest: Ace Adkins https://twitter.com/aceadkins Follow Frank on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FrankFigliuzzi1 Promo codes: Thanks, Avast.com!

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0:00.0	I'm Frank Figuzy, former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence.
0:14.6	Join me on a journey to explore our nation's security, the forces that threaten it, and the people who preserve it.
0:23.6	Let's talk with insiders in and around the intelligence community, law enforcement, and the
0:29.6	military, including, of course, the FBI. They'll take us deep into their stories, their
0:36.6	mission, and their lives as we go behind and beyond the Bureau.
0:47.3	Prostitution.
0:48.3	Crime, gunrunner,
0:49.3	history, law enforcement.
0:50.3	We're seeing a golden age of corruption right now.
0:53.3	Working on his 30th book.
0:55.0	I think the best stories come from the truth.
0:57.0	With an eye toward becoming a crime novel.
1:00.0	All the things that happen in your community that maybe you don't know about.
1:03.0	As a young man, you were reading books by Robert Parker.
1:07.0	It was like time travel. It was absolutely fascinating.
1:10.0	What do you want to do with that?
1:11.9	Making a difference in your own community. If you love it, you're good at it. Good things will happen.
1:16.0	Write a damn good book.
1:19.3	Chances are, you know his work, even if you don't know him. From a young crime reporter at the Tampa
1:26.2	Tribune to full-time novelist at age 30, Ace
1:29.5	Atkins won a Pulitzer Prize nomination for a feature series on his investigation into a
1:35.0	forgotten murder of the 1950s, which became the core of his critically acclaimed novel, White Shadow.
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