Authors Ryan Pote & Beau L'Amour In Conversation w/C.E. Albanese

It's a Double-Header! Come meet two remarkable adventure novelists, Ryan Pote and Beau L'Amour who will be in-conversation with "The Crew Reviews" podcast host C.E. Albanese to celebrate the launch of THE GHOST CITY, by Ryan Pote, and SKYRING WATER, by Beau L'Amour (co-authored with his late father, Louis L'Amour).

Saturday, July 11, 2026 | 2:00 p.m.
B&N Georgetown - On the 3rd Floor
3040 M St NW | Washington, DC

THE GHOST CITY, by Ryan Pote

An ancient secret hidden in a forgotten city holds the key to modern riches in this exhilarating sequel to Blood and Treasure.
Once you've made your first ten billion, what's more money? What any billionaire really wants isn't money, it's power, and Shan Zhang has the perfect plan to achieve that. The discovery of a manuscript from the renowned explorer Marco Polo leads to an ancient city buried under the snows of Antarctica. Within that city lies the key to a forgotten technology that will transform modern society, but that transformation may cause the deaths of millions.
Professional treasure hunter and adventurer Ethan Cain is working on the Mekong River in Vietnam when the massive waterway suddenly goes dry. It's a stunning ecological disaster. One that Ethan can't ignore. His quest for answers will lead him to Zhang and ultimately a confrontation from which only one of them will emerge.

SKYRING WATER, by Beau L'Amour and Louis L'Amour

Louis and Beau L’Amour present a collaboration across time, an epic novel of Cold War suspense, as a pair of unlikely heroes, a woman without a name, and the undefeated agents of the Third Reich find themselves locked in a deadly race to control the greatest secret of the 20th century.
1961. The world is on the brink of nuclear war. Walls are dividing East and West. Empires are crumbling. And in Barcelona, chaos is unleashed when a rogue officer of the East German STASI attempts to blackmail a pair of struggling arms dealers. The secret—30 tons of stolen gold hidden in an icebound wilderness at the end of the world.
Mike Fowler is a former Navy salvage diver and OSS assassin. Anton Voss is an expatriate German scientist whose past grows darker the closer anyone looks. Once they might have been enemies, yet the two share an inseparable bond; they have saved one another's lives. But all of that is put at risk when Mike discovers Anton standing over a midnight visitor with a gun in his hand.
Now they're on the run, allied with gangsters, pursued by the CIA, Israeli intelligence, and a shadowy cabal bent on creating an invisible empire. The trail leads from the rain-soaked docks of Marseilles to the futuristic towers of Caracas and the ruins of a secret island laboratory in Argentine Patagonia. The only way for Mike Fowler to save his oldest friends, and the woman he loves, is to unlock a decades-old mystery buried in his partner’s Nazi past . . . before it destroys them all.
Includes a special postscript by Beau L'Amour detailing the history of the original unpublished manuscript and the process of collaborating with his father both before, and after, his passing.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Ryan Pote is a twelve-year veteran Navy helicopter pilot who was part of a joint interagency special operations task force deployed throughout Central and South America combating drug cartels and transnational criminal organizations. After being medically separated, he investigated prototype aircraft development programs for six years with the Department of Defense. Before the Navy, he lived and worked in Hawaii as a SCUBA diving instructor and a lab assistant conducting microbiological research for Shell Oil. He has a master's degree in history and lives with his wife and kids in Maine.

Beau L'Amour is a writer, art director, and editor. He has written and produced several films, including USA Network’s The Diamond of Jeru. Since 1988 he has been the manager of the estate of his father, the late Louis L’Amour, America's favorite master of adventure, crime, and science fiction. In June of 2026, Random House will publish SKYRING WATER by Beau L'Amour and Louis L'Amour with a special postscript by Beau L'Amour detailing the history of the original unpublished manuscript and the process of collaborating with his father both before, and after, his passing.

Our moderator, C.E. Albanese is a former U.S. Secret Service agent and a Clive Cussler Adventure Writers Competition Grandmaster winner. He co-hosts The Crew Reviews podcast, interviewing today’s top storytellers. When not crafting thrillers, Albanese explores themes of faith, redemption, and the human condition through articles, essays, and chapbooks.

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