The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – No Remorse No Regret (Counterstriker’s Revenge) by Ian Worrall

Episode Date: October 25, 2024

No Remorse No Regret (Counterstriker's Revenge) by Ian Worrall Amazon.com Once a victim... ...now a killer. At the age of 19, Melissa's hopes and dreams were literally drowned when she was stuffed in a sports bag, tied to a cinder block and thrown into the sea. Mistaken for a shipment of dope, she is rescued. Indebted to the man who rescued her, she dispatches his enemies and carries on a personal side mission enacting revenge on behalf of women who've been raped. But the serial killer who left her to drown resurfaces. And goes on his own personal mission to take out the one that got away. With the police hunting them both, who will win the cat and mouse game?About the author Hello and welcome to my author page. I accomplished a goal and dream to write a novel, that being No Remorse No Regret which was followed up by the sequel, No Rest For The Vengeful. I will soon within the next year have the parallel story to No Remorse published along with Message In A Bottle which will be the third, chronologically speaking, in the series. Things I enjoy doing outside of writing, weight training, yoga, martial arts, drumming and archery. I am a lifelong fan of the Edmonton Oilers and I am one of the biggest Iron Maiden fans in the world.

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say his the first is entitled no remorse no regret count counter strikers revenge part of a series that he has. It came out February 10th, 2023. We'll be talking about his insights in the book and everything that went into it. Ian Worrell is the author of four vigilante justice novels, No Remorse, No Regret, and No Rest for the Vengeful. And the upcoming books in the series, book number no mercy for the guilty and book four is no retreat for justice it's a rough life folks he lives in nova scotia and is a lifelong fan of the

edmonton tea oilers and one of the biggest iron maiden fans in the world welcome to the show ian how are you i'm doing great how are you i am doing excellent did we get your last name correct, sir? Yeah, it's Worrell. Let's say Quarrel instead of say Wa. Give us dot coms. Where can people find you on the interwebs? Basically, I have a YouTube channel called The Great Haired Writer, and I also have my website, ianworrellauthor.com Plus, there's

I, Worrell Author on Facebook, and I have various different places on TikTok and Instagram, and I call various different places on TikTok and Instagram. And I call Scotia a writer on X, formerly Twitter. So give us a 30,000 overview of what's inside your new books. The new books, the books, the upcoming one, No Mercy for the Guilty, started off as originally it's like a continuation of books one and two,

No Remorse, No Regret, and No Rest for the Venture. Originally, it started off as Message in a Bottle, but I was advised to change the title because it's too similar. There's the police song by that name, and I think there's a movie as well. So it's basically somebody starts off, somebody receives a message in a bottle on shore about somebody being held captive. Originally, it was an eight-year-old child that was originally found, receives a finds a message in a bottle on shore about somebody's being held captive and originally it was a eight-year-old child that originally found but his father dismissed it as a hoax and

so 10 years later the it just comes up again and the main character in the series melissa she she gets on the trail to try to rescue this person oh wow now is melissa your your main character throughout the books? Yeah, she's Melissa's main character. She modeled her after the John Clark character in the Tom Clancy series. And did that series inspire you? Yeah. So it did inspire you? Yeah, I enjoyed it.

Especially the John Clark origin story as well. I think it was Without Remorse. And I just happened to enjoy the series up until Tom Clancy's death. Yeah, we've had all the books in the series except for the past few ones. I think there's a bit of a delay on our internet. I think that's what's happening. Yeah, the Tom Clancy authors, we've had all the Tom Clancy authors on the show, except for Tom Clancy, of course.

I think he passed away before we really got into that part of doing things in the show. So it's a great series and stuff that's there. Oh, yeah. Now, you bill yourself as the biggest Iron Maiden fan. How big is this Iron Maiden fandom? Do you have embodiments of Steve Harris in your home? Statues of Steve Harris?

What's going on over there in Iron Maiden? Or Eddie, maybe, too, on top of Steve Harris in your home, statues of Steve Harris. What's going on over there in Iron Maiden? Or Eddie, maybe, too, on top of Steve Harris. Hello? Yeah, can you see and hear me? Ian? Yeah, I'm here. Testing 1, 2, 3. Yeah, I have the hardwired internet yeah i'm here you

hear me yeah yeah just do you have how big of an iron man maiden fan are you do you have statues of steve harris and eddie in your house or what are we talking i've got a couple flags on the walls like from the the trooper series when i went and saw them up in montreal for the initial heavy mtl series concert series back in 2008 and I also have some friend of mine gave me the flag from the Killers album, the second one. Oh wow, the Killers, wow that goes back. That goes

back to my childhood when I was when I would go to record stores and spend all day looking at Iron Maiden albums. So, in fact they were just here in Utah and I guess they had a Somewhere in Time set list and yeah i totally spaced and missed it like i my friend told me about he goes it's on tomorrow night and i'm like i'm gonna get a ticket and i don't know that's one of those things where you

got too much going on and and now i hate myself for the next while they better come back and call the service i'm really yeah last time they played in nova scotia i think it was 91. oh really they haven't been a while here yeah wow not lately yeah damn it that sucks so so tell us a little bit about your upbringing what what inspired you to write become a writer yeah a lot of it was a lot of people you've probably heard the story people or people think i got a really good idea for a book or something that and they keep on keep on going on, saying, I got a great idea, I got a great idea, sort of like that. And I kept on putting it off and then putting it off and then putting it off until I suddenly said, you know, I've really got to get going on this.

So basically that's how I started with it and really got going on writing the book. Yeah. Watched a lot of YouTube channels and read a lot of books, writing craft books and stuff like that. So when did you know you kind of had a knack for writing? Or you kind of really loved it? Was there a moment where you're like, I think I'm really good at this? Not really.

I think it was just something I enjoyed doing. A lot of people said, a lot of friends said I was good at what I was doing. So I just kept on going at it until I finally got the book released. And so you self-published the first one, I think. Is that correct? Yeah, both books are self-published, and the next two will be self-published as well. Indecent, independent self-publish for everything. No remorse, no regret.

What's the, and i think you mentioned you're changing the counterstrikers revenge the counterstrikers the name on the series is that correct title yeah i'm gonna change it to catch yeah i'm gonna change it to catch or be caught vigilante justice series because a lot of there's like a video game named counterstrike and i think there was there was also a television series in can television series in Canada back in the early 90s called Counter-Strike, so I didn't really want to get it confused with the other thing. We run the risk

of any... Let's step through the rest of the series. The second book in the series is entitled No Rest for the Vengeful. And this is a continuation of that series. There is No Rest for the Vengeful? No Rest for the Venge rest for the vengeful. No rest for the vengeful. Vengeful.

Yeah. You know, that's the sequel to the first one. She's, she's in witness protection because at the end of the first one, she goes in witness protection against the Russian mafia who trained her in hand to hand combat and weapons. And so she's in witness protection.

The protection of the Russian mafia is looking for there as well well as another shadow organization that would be similar to the campus in the Tom Clancy novels. And I think that's, so she gets found by both groups and they have to, she has to go back to Russia to confront her former, the man who she was living with and who was, who had trained her. So tease us out some of the scenarios in the books

maybe this that you've set up or maybe your favorite writing that's part of the book or they have to they have to rescue her and another person has to rescue the niece of the u.s vice president who gets kidnapped they they inadvertently get her kidnapped and sell her into the sex trade. But they didn't know initially that she was the niece of the vice president. Otherwise, they would have probably not touched her. So that's... And then they go and rescue her. She gets

found and kidnapped and brought back to Russia where she does her final showdown with the main guy who trained her in the first book. Yeah. What do you like in writing about the series? What is it that you find that is an enjoyment for you? It's just something I'm not sure if there's anything in one particular that I enjoyed. It's just I wanted to do it like a female protagonist,

because if you ever see a lot of those sort of vigilante justice ones, it's always a former special forces or covert spy or a guy whose wife gets kidnapped and he goes crazy and mows down all the bad guys single-handedly. So I figured one time I was at a job, there's a poster on the thing that said, for once, I would like to see the pretty princess rescue herself. So I figured, hey, why not have the female character take her own vengeance? That's how I really got into that. Why did you choose a female character over him? Just kind of curious, this conversation.

Basically, like I said, all the male characters, a lot of the Vigilante Justice books, most of them are about the male character whose former special forces, like a former Navy SEAL or former covert spy arc, like they saw in the movie Taken, whose former special forces like in former Navy SEAL or former Covert Spire I could likely see on the in the movie Taken the Liam Neeson movies his daughter gets kidnapped he goes and mows single-handedly mows down all the bad guys and rescues her so I figured why not have the female character and take the revenge ah take the revenge one of the book you have out is called witness

on protection is that part of the series, or is that a standalone? It's a standalone novel. I came off with a writing prompt. I can't really remember exactly what it was because it was a couple years ago. But I decided that some guy, he was in witness protection, but his handler in the witness security ratted him out to the people he was witnessing against so he had to go on the run and then eventually his handler catches him and then they bring him to to where he's going to bury him in the woods yeah yeah

yeah it's always that bury him in the woods that he brought yeah yeah bury him in the woods thing. Yeah, bury him in the woods. And then the guy who was supposed to be about to get killed gets rescued by the police. Right at the end. Sounds like a very interesting series. Now, you've got some other books that we mentioned coming up, I guess. There's a third book in the series, No Mercy for the Guilty. And book four is No Retreat for Justice. Yeah, book three, we already talked about that. The message in the bottle

started off as no retreat for justice unless it tries to stay in retirement, but what this one involves is she goes against people who are doing racially motivated attacks around the country and takes down

a group like that. No remorse, no regret. That's currently... The book, For No Retreat, is currently with the editors. I'm just waiting to get back to that for them. Yeah, you've got to love the editing process. Yeah.

What's the future of what you see yourself? Do you see yourself becoming a major novelist, putting out these books in the series, and keep the book one two three four going ongoing yeah i'll see where it goes i've got other ideas for books as well did one book i it's all pretty much ready to go to the editor i did back in dan o'rimo back in 2017 i think it was it's just that that you write the first draft of a novel in a month. So I did that just to see if I could do it and ended up being able to sticking with it for about seven years in a row and I've got it every year since 2017.

Now, what's that award again? NaNoWriMo. It's National Novel Writing Month. Oh, really? It's basically you go to NaNoWriMo. org you do a 50,000 words in a month which is basically mainly a first draft of a novel there are give or takers on it it's worked out to go a little bit less than 79 words per day which is quite doable he just put you know head down nose to the grindstone type of thing to get it done nose to the

grindstone the what what do you hope people come away with when they read your books and the writing? Just a book that they had fun reading, pretty much. That's who I'm really looking for. We're not really looking to make any type of political statement. We're thinking just entertain people. Yeah, all that good stuff so as we go out pitch people on picking up your book ordering

it up where can they do that and the dot coms of course yeah the emoral author dot com is my website plus my youtube channel the graveyard writer plus most of them are the print books are available wide I have the ebooks I'm putting them back into Kindle Unlimited

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