Mark Beamon

Mark Beamon is the FBI agent protagonist of Kyle Mills's early thriller series — an agent whose unorthodox methods and irreverent attitude toward institutional authority generate as many professional problems as solved cases. Mills writes Beamon with the comic energy of someone who finds the gap between FBI ideals and FBI reality genuinely funny, giving the series a lighter touch than most American law enforcement thrillers.

Beamon's intelligence and investigative instinct are consistently undermined by his inability to play the institutional game — he is too direct, too impatient with bureaucratic procedure, and too willing to say what he thinks to the people who hold his career in their hands. This character flaw is also his greatest professional asset, since it allows him to cut through the political considerations that constrain more careful colleagues.

Mills later became the author continuing Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp series, bringing his thriller craft to one of the genre's most popular franchises. The Beamon series is the earlier, lighter work of a writer who would develop into one of the American thriller genre's most accomplished practitioners.

Begin with Storming Heaven and read in order.