"Illuminating and insightful . . . this is a book that could well become a bible and standard reference text for aspiring filmmakers." — Publishers WeeklyFilm production veteran Tom Reilly has worked on the sets of critically praised films and commercial blockbusters for more than three decades—including seventeen years alongside director Woody Allen. In The Big Picture, he explores the art and the craft of filmmaking from the van...

What would you do if alligators were loose in your office? Or if your place of business changed 80 times during a four month period? What if two of your key employees were infant twins? Or you were asked to manage 130 people who were hired yesterday?Tom Reilly has faced these obstacles and thousands more in his three-decade career managing major motion pictures. He's led more than 100,000 employees and been responsible for overseeing over two billion dollars in pro-rated production ...

The publication of "Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy" fifteen years ago sparked off a storm of controversy with many historians publically deriding the divisive and groundbreaking study. Dissatisfied with the counter-explanations of these seventeenth-century experts concerning Cromwell’s complicity in war crimes in Ireland, amateur historian Tom Reilly now throws down the gauntlet to his critics and issues a challenge to professional historians everywhere. In this entirely fresh work Reilly t...

Your customers have come a long waysince Value-Added Selling was publishedtwenty-five years ago. More knowledgeable,proactive, and price conscious, they regularlyscour the Internet for low prices andhave come to expect much more for eachdollar they spend.Now, Tom Reilly has updated his salesclassic to address a marketplace where slashingdeals has become the standard response tobuyers’ addictions to bargain-basement prices.Used to great success for more than twodecades and ...

If history were music, then the genre of this book would be punk. For nearly 400 years, it has been widely accepted that Oliver Cromwell committed civilian atrocities at Drogheda and Wexford in 1649, thus adversely infecting Anglo-Irish relations for that entire period. As well as other events in Irish history, Cromwell in Ireland has often been weaponised in the North of Ireland. Still, today, emotions about this topic run very deep. Imagine for a moment that Cromwell is completely innoce...

Once again Reilly is back in his usual style with an adrenaline hyped thriller that will test the imagination, taking the reader halfway around the world on a code-red, the highest priority that could breach the nation’s security and that of its allies. An assassination-style homicide occurs on pier 6 overlooking the Lake Windermere in one of the most expensive suburbs of Orlando Florida. Why was Hager Badawi, a 27 years Egyptian naturalized citizen and an aeronautics engineer specializing...

Duke is close to discovering the truth about the alien robots that have landed on Earth. But who—or what—is M.A.R.S.? A fresh, engaging read for fans and newcomers alike, offering vivid storytelling, memorable characters, and a captivating journey from start to finish

A Boeing 777 Global 10 freighter mysteriously disappears in the North Pacific one hour into its flight from Tokyo to Washington, DC. The cargo is top secret for national security reasons. The pilot, Bill Collins,and first officer, Stevens, are decorated naval ensigns from Desert Storm, flying Eagle F-16s, experienced pilots now flying commercial aircraft. But what is the mysterious cargo? Two young CIA agents, Steve Nelson and Gregg Johnson, are assigned to the case, which will tak...

A distinctively realistic 'all killer - no filler' fictional biography that bristles with controversy, sex, love, civil war, slaughter, intrigue, redemption and - perhaps the ultimate crime of all - regicide. Every effort has been made to accurately weave real people around a narrative of historical precision. Meticulously biographical in its substance, the plot is predetermined by a landscape of true events that both enthral and educate. Perhaps controversially, the subject is credibly po...

Mike Summers, a look alike George Clooney has no problem filling his cot with extramarital affairs. At forty five and married to his beautiful wife June and with two teenage children Steven, eighteen and Sheryl, sixteen, life is good for this suburban housewife with her private tennis lessons and girly lunches at the exclusive Jetty Club in East Village, a highly sought after upper-class locality overlooking the river. But Laura Williams, the daughter of Senator Dave Williams and niece of ...

The City That Never Sleeps, is the setting for the real life drama of two New York detectives, Perino and Coyle. Although from different ethnic backgrounds they are an inseparable team. The mayor is coming up for election and the word on the street is that the DAs job is on the line because of the escalating crime rate in the Big Apple. The trauma and effect on their personal lives is taking its toll. An unsolved gang land killing only adds to their woes but things get worse as the streets...

Once again, Reilly has penned a fast-moving nail-biting thriller. The storyline takes place in modern-day Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, during the occupation of the US and coalition forces amidst of the Trump peace negotiations with the Taliban and the Ashraf Ghani Government, for the planned withdrawal of all US forces by the end of 2021. Jacky Evans, an up-and-coming CIA agent at the age of twenty-six, had not gone unnoticed by her superiors at Langley and when a vacancy arose as th...