Jack Carr is a busy guy. Not only is the New York Times bestselling author about to release the seventh thriller featuring his character James Reece called Red Sky Mourning, but the former Navy SEAL is also working on another streaming series for Amazon Prime Video. It’s a spinoff of The Terminal List, the successful 2022 series based on Carr’s debut novel, that featured Chris Pratt in the role of Reece.
Terminal List: Dark Wolf is a prequel series in which Pratt will reprise his role as James Reece, with Taylor Kitsch also returning as Ben Edwards, Reece’s former Navy SEAL teammate. The series tells the story of what caused Edwards to make the decisions he did in The Terminal List. Carr plans to return to where the production team is shooting in Budapest, once he finishes the book tour for Red Sky Mourning.
“It is looking fantastic, the scripts are fantastic, the guys are crushing it overseas right now,” Carr said. “I cannot wait to get that out. It should come out sometime in 2025. I learned a lot about screenwriting over the past couple of years, a lot about show running, a lot about production, a lot about directing, and a lot about everything involved in bringing a show to life, which allows me to then write a script for this series and write a script for the next one, True Believer, which we will start working on after we wrap this show.”
In Red Sky Mourning, Reece’s mission becomes personal when assassins who are targeting him wind up shooting his fiancee, Katie Buranek. To prevent a potential nuclear war, Reece must work with familiar allies, including Alice, to stop a government conspiracy fueled by a tech billionaire’s artificial intelligence program.
“A couple of books ago, for (his fifth thriller) In The Blood, I introduced a character named Alice,” Carr said in explaining the premise for Red Sky Mourning. “It’s an artificial intelligence quantum computer, from the military intelligence side of the house. For In The Blood, Chat GPT was not yet part of the lexicon, and then Chat GPT came out and became a thing that everyone is talking about. So in this case, it’s how does that how does artificial intelligence impact the future of warfare, visa vie, China and the United States? Both countries are working on their own programs and their own platforms. What does that mean in a future state-on-state conflict? Those things collide in the pages of my latest novel, Red Sky Mourning.”
It’s vintage Carr, taking the reader through high-energy, expertly-detailed sequences as Reece executes his plans while experiencing subconscious conversations with his wife and daughter, whose deaths started the series of events that played out in The Terminal List. Fans will also notice Carr’s tributes to Ian Fleming, whose British agent James Bond has entertained fans for more than a half-century. Red Sky Mourning is another page-turner from Carr, who is a student of the craft and striving to improve with every thriller. He’s succeeded once again.
Red Sky Mourning is available since June 18.
