Coyote Six Writing Course

Meet Your Instructor

Anderson Harp is the author of international thrillers that have been compared to “Tom Clancy at his finest!” (New York Times bestselling author James Rollins).

His military experience informs his fiction, earning him high praise (“authentic … exciting … timely … believable” (New York Times bestselling author David Morrell, creator of John Rambo).

Anderson’s “breakneck pacing” and suspense satisfy “even the most demanding reader” (New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston).

His fans rave that his “keenly insightful military thriller compares to Robert Ludlum’s trilogy about CIA assassin Jason Bourne” (www.militarywriters.com).

Anderson has served the United States Marine Corps in many capacities, from artillery to teaching mountain warfare and arctic survival. Harp’s military work has taken him from the Arctic Circle and Fort Greely, Alaska, (where a typical day reaches 44 below zero), to the Persian Gulf, Central America, Europe, South Korea, and the Pentagon. As an office in the Marine Corps Reserve, he was mobilized for Operation Enduring Freedom and served with MarCent’s Crisis Action Team.

He has attended the Iowa Writers Workshop’s Summer Festival on many occasions, and is presently completing a Masters in Fine Arts in literary fiction. He has also taught writing at workshops and published works in the medical field.

Anderson was the spearhead for the International Thriller Writer’s acclaimed “Operation Thriller.” Harp chaired and participated in the first USO author’s tour in its seventy-year history, which took fellow thriller writers and Anderson to meet troops in Iraq and Kuwait. He also was a member of the 2012 Operation Thriller Tour with tourmates Michael Connelly, Brad Meltzer, Joseph Finder and Kathy Antrim. He is the only author in the history of the USO to be invited to attend two tours. All of the Operation Thrillers to date have gone into hazardous duty locations to include the Persian Gulf and other undisclosed locations.

Anderson Harp’s next novel, Retribution, will be released by Pinnacle Press (Kensington Books) in March of 2014. It follows Anderson’s continuing lead character William Parker in a deep-cover mission that spans across the globe.

Much like his fictional hero Parker, Anderson is a pilot, has skied in Aspen, Kitzbuhel, and Killington, run marathons, climbed Mount Fuji, scuba-dived wrecks, and hunted in South America. He was a national-level runner in college at American University.

Harp lives in Columbus, Georgia, home of Fort Benning. He and his wife, Jane have four children.