Adam Rocke

A "literary mercenary" for nearly three decades, Adam Rocke has authored more than fifty books (fiction and nonfiction, credited and ghosted), optioned and sold original screenplays and crafted many work-for-hire scripts, penned hundreds of feature articles for domestic and international publications, and created page-turning content for countless companies and brands.

CREDITED TITLES

• The Death Dealer (World Castle Publishing); based on Adam’s Maxim article about hunting poachers in Africa; optioned by Story Merchant/Ken Atchity
• A Guide to Improvised Weaponry: How To Protect Yourself With WHATEVER You’ve Got (Adams Media); co-written with Green Beret Master Sergeant Terry Schappert, star of Hollywood Weapons (Outdoor Channel) and Dude, You’re Screwed (Discovery)
• Mule: My Dangerous Life as a Drug Smuggler Turned DEA Informant (Lyons Press/Globe Pequot); true crime memoirs of ex-Juarez cartel smuggler C.A. Heifner
• Nothing Runs (Veloce Press UK); chronicles Adam’s obsession and hilarious misadventures with classic and exotic cars
• Lackbeard (Common Deer Press); YA modern-day Goonies; optioned by Darla Shelby Entertainment
• The Pirate Handbook: A Rogue’s Guide to Pillage, Plunder, Chaos & Conquest (Chronicle Books); ghosted for/with world-renowned pirate expert Pat Croce, owner of the St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum
• Plunder (Turner Publishing); coming-of-age action/adventure set during the Golden Age of Piracy; co-written with Pat Croce
• Rex (Common Deer Press) MG action/adventure about a young boy and his pet Tyrannosaurus rex
• Sons of Guns: Straight-Shootin’ Stories from the Star of the Hit Discovery Series (It Books); companion book for Discovery’s hit unscripted show
• Pick Up Your Poker Game (Turner Publishing)
• Cracked Aces: The Wildest, Craziest, Most Unbelievable TRUE Poker Stories (Motivational Press)
• Tiki Drinks, Shag Party, The Pink Panther Cocktail Party, The Pink Panther Entertains, and Around the World in 80 Drinks (Surrey Books); bestselling mixology books illustrated by world-renowned “kitsch culture” artist, Shag
• Ayre Force (Bodog); graphic novel featuring artwork by celebrated illustrator Shawn Martinbrough; hit of the 2008 New York Comic-Con

PARTICIPATORY JOURNALISM

• Frequent feature contributor to all major men’s lifestyle publications (Maxim, Stuff, Razor, Robb Report, Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler, etc.)
• Penned cornerstone article (“Birds of Prey”) for Stuff Magazine’s US debut
• First journalist to be waterboarded
• Covered US military’s “Project Excalibur” two decades before 60 Minutes
• Only civilian to ever compete in the now defunct World Sniper Open
• Spent one week in Upstate NY’s “super max” prison Eastern Correctional Facility researching “How To Survive Incarceration” for Stuff Magazine
• Subject of The New Yorker feature article “All About Adam” detailing Adam’s crazy literary adventures
   

GHOSTWRITING

• More than 20 published memoirs for professional athletes, and celebrities from the worlds of television, film, music and business; seven bestsellers
• Numerous “self-help” titles for sales and marketing gurus
• Multiple self-defense, martial arts and fitness titles
• “Companion books” for hit reality/unscripted TV shows
• On the short list of ghostwriters for the elite Spec Ops community
   

MISCELLANEOUS

• Survived “beatings” from expert practitioners in virtually every form of pugilism or martial arts style
• Rated “EXPERT” with all manner of firearms and weaponry
• Unofficial “test dummy” for tazers, stun guns, pepper sprays, tear gases, rubber bullets and other “less lethal” defensive weapons
• Swam with great white sharks sans cage
• Jumped out of a plane sans parachute
• Played poker with cartel kingpins sans sanity
• Dived for pirate treasure in the Caribbean
• Scouted for UFOs in the Sonoran Desert
• Hunted poachers in Africa
• Competed in sanctioned and illegal motor races throughout the USA
• Taken part in Sasquatch safaris and other “crypto-quests” around the world