Speaker & Podcast Guest
Invite Dave Bartell on Your Show
Thriller author, biochemist, and lifelong adventurer. Ten books, all built on real history and real science, and he can talk about the true part as easily as the invented.
A guest who has done the reading
Dave Bartell writes the Darwin Lacroix Adventure series, ten thrillers built on documented history and real science, plus the Zac Johnson series. Before the novels he trained as a biochemist and spent a career as a technology executive. He is a member of the Archaeological Institute of America.
What that means for your listeners: every book starts from something real, a Roman scroll under Vesuvius, the Knights Templar’s treasury, Operation Paperclip, and Dave can talk about the true history as easily as the fiction he builds on top of it. He is warm, quick, and happy to follow a good tangent. He can carry a full hour and leave your audience with somewhere new to look.
Topics Dave loves
- The real history behind the fiction: how he researches, and where the record ends and the thriller begins.
- The Knights Templar as the inventors of modern banking.
- Vesuvius, Herculaneum, and what is still buried under the ash.
- The Library of Alexandria, Hypatia, and the knowledge the world lost.
- Art forgery, and how fakes move through museums and tax-free freeports.
- The hidden history of the Second World War: looted art, Operation Paperclip, and the Pacific gold rumors of 1945.
- Building a ten-book series, and growing a readership as an independent author.
Formats and logistics
Remote or in person. Thirty to sixty minutes suits most shows, and longer is welcome. Studio-quality audio on his end. Dave is based in Los Gatos, California, on Pacific Time, and is comfortable on reader and genre shows, history and science shows, and author and publishing podcasts alike.
The history is real. The danger is very, very fictional.
the line that sums up every book
Short bio for hosts
Dave Bartell is the author of the Darwin Lacroix Adventure series and the Zac Johnson series, thrillers built on real history and real science. A biochemist by training and a former technology executive, he is a member of the Archaeological Institute of America. He climbed the highest peak in the continental United States at ten, has raced road bikes at over fifty miles an hour, and now writes full time from Los Gatos, California.
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Dave Bartell is available for podcast interviews, author events, and media. Invitations and interview requests all reach him at the same address, and he reads every message.