Anthony C. Patton is the author of Celebrity Pass (screenplay), EXFIL (novel), and Treaty Violation (novel). He has served three decades in the U.S. Intelligence Community, to include extensive experience with the CIA while serving in senior leadership positions in Latin America, Europe, and South Asia. He studied philosophy and mathematics at Augsburg University and received an MBA from Thunderbird - School of Global Management.
Celebrity Pass Budget: $1M - $5M | Independent When the biggest pop star diva in the world decides to be the face of a brand name laundry detergent, an ambitious advertising executive is forced to reassess her life and career.
EXFIL
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by Double Agent Publishing
Writer In the Digital Age, cyber espionage is on the rise, with the heavyweight fight between the United States and China taking center stage. After a series of devastating cyberattacks on the Pentagon, Colonel Lance Reed, a patriotic intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), teams up with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to pursue Lieutenant Colonel Li, China's most lethal cyber spy. After Colonel Reed scores a major victory to prevent the next cyberattack, he finds himself entrapped as past events surface and test his limits. After a brilliant chess move strikes a lethal blow at the Chinese cyber program, fueled by a conspiracy of corporate lobbying, Colonel Reed is left to assess what matters most in life.
Treaty Violation
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by Empiricus Publishing
Writer CIA officer Nicholas Lowe had a brilliant future, until a failed operation in El Salvador nearly ruined his career. Ten years later, with the murders of CIA officer Tyler Broadman and Broadman’s fiancée, the alluring Helena Hernandez, Nicholas returns to the field and assumes control of a CIA covert operation to maintain a U.S. military presence in Panama post-1999. To complete the operation, Nicholas immerses himself in the shady world of drug trafficking, money laundering, and political corruption, but Helena’s murder takes center stage. Who murdered Helena Hernandez? To answer that question, Nicholas unravels the greatest mystery of all—himself.
Thunderbird School of Global Management
(1996-1997)
Augsburg College
(1987-1991)