Meet Dirk Greyson and Day and Knight

 

Hello, this is Dirk and my alter ego Andrew Grey is giving up his blog spot this month, so I can tell you about Day and Knight releasing May 4.  I love adventure and action stories rich with passion and this is the first story in the Day and Knight series.  The idea came to me a year ago at the Dreamspinner conference and it took some time until I was ready to put the story on paper.  When I did, it poured from the page.

Day is former NSA, now with Scorpion, and he longs to move from data collection and analysis to field work.  He’s smart, strong, sometimes stubborn, has a bit of a smart mouth, as well as some hidden talents.  J  He’s also closeted and in basic denial about his sexual identity.

Knight is a Marine whose life has gone to hell.  After the death of his wife and son, he crawled into a bottle and stayed there.  Knight is honorable to a fault, stubborn, experienced, and as Day puts it, he can be an asshole.  Just like Day, he’s closeted and getting him to talk about his personal life is like pulling teeth.

Their mission:  To stop a potential terrorist plot originating in Mexico.  They need to get in and out under the radar and a cruise ship is determined to be the best cover.  However the only cruise available right away is a gay cruise and they need to pose as a couple to maintain their cover.   The parks fly all over the place and after a night of too much alcohol…   You get the picture, these guys don’t know whether to fight or f&*k.  In the end they do both.   This story had passion, powerful emotions, revelations that will steal your heart, and action to keep you on the edge of your seat.

 

Purchase an advance copy:  https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6310

Blurb:

As former NSA, Dayton (Day) Ingram has national security chops and now works as a technical analyst for Scorpion. He longs for fieldwork, and scuttling an attack gives him his chance. He’s smart, multilingual, and a technological wizard. But his opportunity comes with a hitch—a partner, Knighton (Knight), who is a real mystery. Despite countless hours of research, Day can find nothing on the agent, including his first name!

 

Former Marine Knight crawled into a bottle after losing his family. After drying out, he’s offered one last chance: along with Day, stop a terrorist threat from the Yucatan. To get there without drawing suspicion, Day and Knight board a gay cruise, where the deeply closeted Day and equally closeted Knight must pose as a couple. Tensions run high as Knight communicates very little and Day bristles at Knight’s heavy-handed need for control.

 

But after drinking too much, Day and Knight wake up in bed. Together. As they near their destination, they must learn to trust and rely on each other to infiltrate the terrorist camp and neutralize the plot aimed at the US’s technological infrastructure, if they hope to

 

Excerpt:

“Look. If last night was some huge drunken mistake for you, then fine. I can deal with that. But I don’t think we do things when we’re drunk that we wouldn’t do when we’re sober. The alcohol lowers our inhibitions so we end up doing what we really want to do. So deny away and hide behind some façade that you were drunk and all that, if you want.”

“I didn’t say that. God. You jump to the worst conclusions, and for the record, you can stop trying to analyze me. I’ve had a ton of people do that over the last few years, and they got nowhere, so what makes you think you’ll get any farther than the professionals? If you want to know something, then ask, and if I don’t want to answer, I’ll tell you to fuck off.”

“Okay. Are you gay?” Day asked.

“Fuck off,” Knight answered.

“Why were all kinds of professionals trying to analyze you?”

“Fuck off. Are you gay?”

“Fuck off.” Two could play that game.

“Okay. I think we’ve gotten the picture that neither of us wants to talk about all this shit.”

“We sure as hell don’t. But one thing we can both agree on is that after last night, whatever we want to call ourselves, there’s something about each of us that we both need to figure the hell out.”

“Fuck off and amen,” Knight answered and closed his eyes. “This fucking conversation is making my head hurt.”

“No. I think the fucking conversation actually happened last night, and if I’m remembering correctly, there wasn’t a lot of actual conversation going on.” Day shifted slightly. “Regardless of what we feel and how uncomfortable we are, we do need to talk this out.”

“Fine,” Knight breathed. “But not when we’re hungover.” He put his arm over his eyes, refusing to look at anything. “We need to be sober for that. So lie down and help me keep the damned room from spinning for a while, and then we can leave this cabin so maybe I can jump over one of the railings, because I think I’m going to die and that will make the whole damn thing a hell of a lot less painful.”

Day smacked his arm. “Fuck off,” he said with surprising gentleness, and then he settled and the room grew quiet.

It took a while, but the room stopped moving, except for the rocking of the ship that he couldn’t do anything about, and slowly he felt more and more human. Eventually he got up and went into the bathroom for some more water and decided that taking a shower might make him feel better.

About Dirk

Dirk is very much an outside kind of man.  He loves travel and seeing new things.  Dirk worked in corporate America for way too long and now spends  his days writing, gardening, and taking care of the home he shares with his partner of more than two decades.  He has a Masters Degree and all the other accessories that go with a corporate job.  But he is most proud of the stories he tells and the life he’s built.  Dirk lives in Pennsylvania in a century old home and is blessed with an amazing circle of friends.

 

You can contact him at:  dirkgreyson@comcast.net

Web site:  www.dirkgreyson.com

Facebook:  www.facebook.com/dirkgreysonbooks

Twitter:  @dirkgreyson