James Ring

James Ring, a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent, investigated the American La Cosa Nostra and the Sicilian Mafia in New England. Ring received the Department of Justice's highest award as the architect of the first and only electronic interception of the La Cosa Nostra/Mafia induction ceremony of new members, including the Omertà oath.

Post FBI, Ring founded a business information and investigative service with a prestigious Boston law firm. Today he devotes his full time to writing. Ring resides in Boston and South Dartmouth, Massachusetts with his wife, Merita A. Hopkins.

Ring’s first novel, Necessary Assets, is a five-star rated international terrorist thriller. It is a fictional work that pairs the Sicilian Mafia with US law enforcement to fight al-Qaeda’s plan to destroy two US cities, New York and Boston. Ring weaves the reader through the intricacies of law enforcement’s chase to identify the enemy, and the story does not shy away from the obstacles and turf wars of competing investigatory efforts. Necessary Assets is a spell-binding tale that informs the reader of our present day threats, but also truly gives you hope in the prevailing goodness of human nature.

Ring’s second book, 784 Broadway, is a non-fiction remembrance of summers spent with his Italian immigrant family. Ring tells of his great-grandmother and her two sons and daughter, who operated a green-grocer store in Kingston, New York. Ring worked in the green-grocer store as a chid, and learned to hunt and fish at the family camp nearby. Using warm and often humorous short stories, Ring recounts their influence on his life as a child through adulthood. Ring’s greatest lessons in life were absorbed from this humble environment. 784 Broadway is a humorous and affectionate reporting of the past which offers the reader some thoughts on the present, and reflections for tomorrow.

Visit Jim on his website www.jamesring.com.