Jim Brown


Around the World


24/7 has been published in countries around the world. This is the Japanese version.

They changed the title for the Dutch edition of 24/7.

24/7 in Russian

The British edition of 24/7 references "Big Brother," a hugely successful reality show in that country.


Black Valley -- British edition.

Chaplin dictates to Jim

Background


Jim Brown is a successful broadcast journalist and three time winner of the Associated Press Best Newscast Award.

As a television anchor and reporter, he has covered such breaking news as the Springfield, Oregon school shooting, the Atlanta Child Killings, the Stocking Strangler, and countless other criminal and court cases.

He has broadcast live for CNN and reported from inside the Oregon State Penitentiary. He has also been featured in a BBC documentary, as well as an Oregon State University educational film.

He currently lives in Fresno, CA and is married to television anchor/reporter Kathryn Herr of CBS affiliate KGPE.


Books



Best Selling Authors on 24/7

“24/7 will keep you up 24/7. Jim Brown’s debut, a nightmarish twist on reality TV, is a finger-burning page-turner that you won’t be able to put down. The tribe has spoken: 24/7 is a winner.”
– Harlan Coben

“24/7 is a fast-paced, intense, impossible-to-put-down page-turner that takes place in the growing world of reality television – only in this case the stakes are ratcheted up considerably for both winners and losers. Readers who like their novels racing like a roller coaster will enjoy Jim Brown’s debut from first page to last.”
– John Katzenbach


REVIEWS

“Freakin’ brilliant.”
– Bookreporter.com

“Genuinely suspenseful, not merely a high-concept premise.”
– Booklist

“Brown doesn’t waste any time getting down to business . . . Skip the television and read 24/7. It’s better for you and a heck of a lot more fun.”

– AOL Book Report

“Jim Brown’s first novel shows enough talent and imagination for him to enjoy a promising career.”

– The Mystery Reader

"Not only a thematic trailblazer, but an imaginatively conceived, utterly chilling expose. . .will probably be THE most-talked-about thriller of the year.”
– Elli Miller, Independent Reviewer

“[A] mind-boggling thriller.”
– BookBrowser Review

“A true thrill ride.”
– Romantic Times Magazine

“Unrelenting.”
– Crime By Collins Reviews at Lady M’s Mystery International

“I lost a night’s sleep.”
– Reality News Online

“Gripping.”
– Columbus Metropolitan Library



BEST SELLING AUTHORS ON
BLACK VALLEY

“BLACK VALLEY is utterly terrifying. Ferociously creative, twisting and curving like a serpent, this story kept me awake and turning the pages until the very end."
– Tess Gerritsen

“Black Valley has it all--an ingenious premise, engaging characters, masterful storytelling, and hair-raising scenes that chilled me to the marrow. Jim Brown is clearly a rising star in this new golden era of suspense fiction."
– John Saul

“Black Valley is an incredible story – I’m still reeling.”
– Douglas Preston, Coauthor of The Cabinet of Curiosities

“Terror runs amok in Black Valley – a Dean Koontz–style thriller pulsating with suspense, intrigue, and a twenty-year old vendetta that rises (literally) from the grave.
– Katherine Neville, Author of The Eight

"A classic page-turner, Black Valley is an intense, intelligent, fast-paced, first-rate thriller. Jim Brown's new novel will grab you on page one and keep you up late into the night -- making your imagination work overtime after the lights are out."
– Joe Weber, Author of Dancing with the Dragon


Black Valley
From Jim Brown, author of the celebrated 24/7, comes a spine-tingling tale of a small town haunted by dark secrets.
When the citizens of Black Valley, a remote Oregon town, are terrorized by vicious, sadistic “Whitey” Dobbs – nicknamed for his shock of bone-white hair – five teenagers concoct a shiver-inducing act of revenge. But their plans to eliminate Whitey go terrifyingly awry, sending him on a rampage that plunges Black Valley into doom for generations to come

24/7 -- Fact or Fiction
Could something like the events depicted in 24/7 actually happen? Consider this:

The Possibility of the Impossible
BLACK VALLEY
"The Possibility of the Impossible"



Selected Works

Books
24/7
“Freakin’ brilliant.” – Bookreporter.com
Black Valley
What happens when a logical man faces an impossible situation? "Utterly terrifying." -- Tess Gerritsen
Writing
24/7 -- Fact or Fiction
"Could it happen?"
The Possibility of the Impossible
What happens when an intelligent man comes face to face with the impossible? Not the unlikely, not the unbelievable, but the truly brain numbing, bowel clenching, what-the-hell-is-that, impossible?

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