About Nick

Nick is an action-adventure thriller novelist, who writes the types of books he likes to read. That means you won’t find anything boring, slow, or sappy in his stories. People have described his work as “airplane books,” but he just sees that as a compliment.

Nick was born in Connecticut, grew up in Texas, and lives in Colorado with his wife, two children, three dogs, and tortoise. He loves snow, drinking whiskey by the fireplace while it’s snowing, and writing books by candlelight while a thick layer of snow piles up outside.

Background

Nick wasn’t always a writer. He began studying music at a young age and sought a career in composition and film scoring. He began his undergraduate work as a high school student at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and has a degree in music from Texas State University.

After graduating, he decided to try his hand at writing novels, inspired by books from authors such as James Rollins, Dan Brown, and Clive Cussler. He thought writing a book would be easy.

He was wrong.

That first book, The Golden Crystal, was terrible, and needed serious work from an editor in order to become publishable. That editor would go on to become a friend and cowriter, MP MacDougall. The Golden Crystal was reworked, edited, and revamped, then released in 2011. It was later re-released as The Atlantis Stone.

Thacker continued progress on his novels, releasing The Depths and The Enigma Strain shortly thereafter. The Enigma Strain was received well, and requests to continue the characters of Harvey Bennett and Juliette Richardson were answered with the sequel, The Amazon Code. 

To date, Thacker has released numerous novels in the Harvey Bennett Mysteries series, the Mason Dixon Thrillers series, the Relics Singularity Series, and other short stories and short standalone novels.

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