#the protocol

J. Robert Kennedy is a Canadian author of thriller and mystery novels. He writes the James Acton Thrillers series, the Detective Shakespeare Mysteries, the Zander Varga series and the Special Agent Dylan Kane Thrillers. To date, 11 of his novels have been named international bestsellers. Robert lives in Ontario, Canada with his family.

James Acton Thrillers

The Protocol (2010) — Buy on Amazon!

Brass Monkey (2011) — Buy on Amazon!

Broken Dove (2012) — Buy on Amazon!

The Templar’s Relic (2012) — Buy on Amazon!

Flags of Sin (2013) — Buy on Amazon!

The Arab Fall (2013) — Buy on Amazon!

The Circle of Eight (2013) — Buy on Amazon!

The Venice Code (2014) — Buy on Amazon!

Pompeii's Ghosts (2014) — Buy on Amazon!

Amazon Burning (2014) — Buy on Amazon!

The Riddle (2014) — Buy on Amazon!

Blood Relics (2015) — Buy on Amazon!

Sins of the Titanic (2015) — Buy on Amazon!

Saint Peter's Soldiers (2015) — Buy on Amazon!

The Thirteenth Legion (2016) — Buy on Amazon!

Raging Sun (2016) — Buy on Amazon!

Wages of Sin (2016) — Buy on Amazon!

Wrath of the Gods (2017) — Buy on Amazon!

The Templar's Revenge (2017) — Buy on Amazon!

The Nazi's Engineer (2017) — Buy on Amazon!

Atlantis Lost (2018) — Buy on Amazon!

The Cylon Curse (2018) — Buy on Amazon!

The Viking Deception (2018) — Buy on Amazon!

Keepers of the Lost Ark (2019) — Buy on Amazon!

The Tomb of Genghis Khan (2019) — Buy on Amazon!

The Manila Deception (2019) — Buy on Amazon!

The Fourth Bible (2020) — Buy on Amazon!

Embassy of the Empire (2020) — Buy on Amazon!

Armageddon (2020) — Buy on Amazon!

No Good Deed (2021) — Buy on Amazon!

The Last Soviet (2021) — Buy on Amazon!

Lake of Bones (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

Fatal Reunion (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

The Resurrection Tablet (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

The Antarctica Incident (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

The Ghosts of Paris (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

No More Secrets (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

The Curse of Imhotep (2023) — Buy on Amazon!

The Sword of Doom (2023) — Buy on Amazon!

The Heretics Bible (2024) — Buy on Amazon!

The Hunt for the Holy Grail (2024) — Buy on Amazon!

Crypt of the Gladiator (2025) — Buy on Amazon!

Delta Force Unleashed

Payback (2015) — Buy on Amazon!

Infidels (2015) — Buy on Amazon!

The Lazarus Moment (2015) — Buy on Amazon!

Kill Chain (2016) — Buy on Amazon!

Forgotten (2016) — Buy on Amazon!

The Cuban Incident (2020) — Buy on Amazon!

Rampage (2021) — Buy on Amazon!

Inside the Wire (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

Charlie Foxtrot (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

A Price Too High (2023) — Buy on Amazon!

Righteous Hell (2024) — Buy on Amazon!

So They Don't Have To (2025) — Buy on Amazon!

Detective Shakespeare Mysteries

Depraved Difference (2011) — Buy on Amazon!

Tick Tock (2012) — Buy on Amazon!

The Redeemer (2012) — Buy on Amazon!

Just Jack Thrillers

You Don't Know Jack (2023) — Buy on Amazon!

Jack Be Nimble (2023) — Buy on Amazon!

Special Agent Dylan Kane

Rogue Operator (2013) — Buy on Amazon!

Containment Failure (2013) — Buy on Amazon!

Cold Warriors (2013) — Buy on Amazon!

Death To America (2014) — Buy on Amazon!

Black Widow (2015) — Buy on Amazon!

The Agenda (2017) — Buy on Amazon!

Retribution (2017) — Buy on Amazon!

State Sanctioned (2019) — Buy on Amazon!

Extraordinary Rendition (2020) — Buy on Amazon!

Red Eagle (2020) — Buy on Amazon!

The Messenger (2021) — Buy on Amazon!

The Defector (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

The Mole (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

The Arsenal (2023) — Buy on Amazon!

The Betrayal (2024) — Buy on Amazon!

Templar Detective

The Templar Detective (2017) — Buy on Amazon!

The Templar Detective and the Parisian Adulteress (2018) — Buy on Amazon!

The Templar Detective and the Sergeant's Secret (2018) — Buy on Amazon!

The Templar Detective and the Unholy Exorcist (2018) — Buy on Amazon!

The Templar Detective and the Code Breaker (2019) — Buy on Amazon!

The Templar Detective and the Black Scourge (2020) — Buy on Amazon!

The Templar Detective and the Lost Children (2021) — Buy on Amazon!

The Templar Detective and the Satanic Whisper (2022) — Buy on Amazon!

Wolfgang Vogel Mystery

The Colonel's Wife (2019) — Buy on Amazon!

Sins of the Child (2020) — Buy on Amazon!

Zander Varga: Vampire Detective

jack-o from when i was frustrated at old art of mine that colt put as a pfp.

me, my oc molly, and then john. mascot john tk be precise.

wolfwood and vash works

GWEN: What was in that envelope I gave him? LENA: A name and an address. GWEN: But for who? LENA: I’m sure you’ve already worked that out. But just in case you haven’t, keep an eye on the case loads over the next few days. It should become abundantly clear.

Was it clear? If the Protocol is to call in a liaison (murder clown, paramilitary group) to destroy something at a location, what was the target in the club?

James Acton Thriller #1

by J. Robert Kennedy

I found this Canadian author's expropriation of Bobby Kennedy's name in order to get a leg up in the publishing industry off-putting.  (He has kept his own Christian name well-hidden.)  I almost didn't read him for that reason alone.

The book began with great promise—an archeology professor on a dig in Peru with some of his students uncovers a secret room in a cave—but it soon degenerated into nothing more than a string of murders committed by 'black ops' on the thin excuse that every one of them was on the 'President's Termination List'.  This was supposed to be a thriller, but it took the suspension of belief required for a fantasy in order to swallow Kennedy's action, and the plot vanished somewhere around the third chapter.

It's no mystery how Kennedy manages to pound out a book in two weeks.  This one was nothing more than a string of imaginative, thinly-excused murders.