James Pomerantz
Novelist • Biographer
James Pomerantz
Novelist • Biographer
James writes high-stakes thrillers for readers who crave elite operators, moral gray zones, and relentless action, led by The Rogue Breacher, a Deklan Novak novel featuring a former U.S. Navy SEAL pushed off the grid and into a war without rules. The cryptic industry message that best describes James Pomerantz as the author from the Deklan Novak novels to the recently released; Camelot’s Secret Legacy: It’s not the prose. or … it’s not ONLY the prose. The first pages written by James make the reader put down whatever they were doing and read past where they were supposed to stop. The style/genre has a specific quality that agents and publishers have been trying to name for years. The closest they can get is that the words feel inevitable. Like the book knows exactly what it is from the very first line. Like the writer decided about voice, about where to enter the story, about what the first thing the reader experiences will be, and committed to it completely. No hedging. no warming up. No, let me establish some context before we get to the actual thing.” Just here we are. This is the world. This is the voice. Come with me or don’t.
Camelot's Secret Legacy:
WE KNEW SHE WAS MAGIC ALL ALONG
The 1,036 days of John F. Kennedy’s administration culminated with perhaps the most consequential day in American history. Camelot’s Secret Legacy explores the life of McKenna Casey Gordon, the biological daughter of JFK and Marilyn Monroe, through a Secret Service agent assigned to the presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza on 11/22/1963. Dominick Welles protected Lancer (the Secret Service code name for President Kennedy). Camelot, the term Jackie Kennedy used to describe their days in the White House for a Life magazine article published one week after her husband’s assassination. What if Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy had a secret daughter and she lived to tell the tale? Historical fiction can offer a visceral fairy-tale-like resolution to a tragic reality.
The Rogue Breacher:
second book in the Deklan Novak series
As sanctioned violence slips further into the shadows, Novak is forced to confront a truth he can’t breach his way through. The mission always ends, but the cost never does. Faith, authority, and loyalty fracture as the line between justice and necessity keeps changing. Novak is standing exactly where it breaks and he is the hero making seemingly terrible decisions that we love.
The Rogue Breacher is a gritty, kinetic thriller about power without permission, violence without flags, and the men trusted to act when the world insists on looking away.
The Breacher's Playbook:
A Deklan Novak Novel
The Breacher’s Playbook, co-written with Navy SEAL Tom Hruby, follows the remarkable journey of Deklan Novak, beginning after high school with Deklan’s decision to forgo college and become a professional MMA fighter. With a record of 7-0, the 9/11 attacks turn Deklan’s title-belt dreams into a mission to join the most difficult club in the world to join, the Navy SEALs.
The mystery thriller lays the groundwork for what the authors describe as a recurring character who is hard, fast, and mean as a razor wire. Deklan’s life path is one of determination and sacrifice in the face of defeat.
This debut narrative, the first in a planned three-book series, is a fictional account based on Hruby’s real-life story.