THE AUTHOR

Dante Reyes writes the thrillers he always wished he could find — the ones where the details hold up, the people feel real, and the moves that matter most happen in the quiet.

He came to fiction from an unlikely seat. Starting in 2003, he spent years in the title industry — the paperwork layer beneath every real estate deal, where you see who's really buying, who's really selling, and how ownership quietly changes hands when no one's watching. It isn't glamorous work. But it's one of the truest vantage points there is on how money and property actually move, and he had a front-row seat to all of it.

He watched the 2008 financial crisis arrive from the closing table — not as a headline, but as a shift in the paperwork that told the story long before the news caught up. He watched capital cross borders and quietly reshape whole communities, watched who was really acquiring what, and slowly began to see the board beneath the ordinary world: the positions, the leverage, the sacrifices, the once-only moves. The En Passant universe grew straight out of that soil.

Along the way, he studied the best operators in the business up close — the elite residential and commercial agents who move through rooms most people never enter, who can read a person in seconds and a deal in less. Much of what he knows about how his characters carry themselves, how they talk and watch and wait, he learned by watching the real thing.

Around those same years, he was also learning to see through a lens. Film and photography taught him light, framing, and the discipline of what to leave out of the shot — which is why the books read like sequences rather than chapters. He sees a scene before he writes it, then sets you down exactly where the camera would be.

He builds this world the way a writers' room builds a series: every character with a file, every thread tracked across every book, a place that holds together whether you enter through the trilogy, the prequel, or the spinoff.

“The goal was never one novel. It was somewhere worth returning to — made for the kind of reader who notices the small things. If that's you, you're going to feel right at home.

This world is built to be believed in, and every move in it costs something. Pull a thread, and it holds. Come see how deep it goes.”