Ward Larsen
Best-selling thriller author and longtime airline captain known for military- and aviation-informed novels such as The Perfect Assassin and Cold Zero, who draws on his fighter-pilot and crash-investigation experience for his fiction.
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Feb 9, 2026 • 55min
1KHO 705: Find Shelter or Die | Ward Larsen, Cold Zero
Ward Larsen, bestselling thriller writer and longtime airline captain, blends fighter-pilot grit with crash-investigation realism. He discusses Cold Zero’s Arctic plane crash, survival and espionage in ice, the co-writing process with Brad Thor, and rising threats from AI and deepfakes. He also explains balancing technical detail for readers and how small mistakes become fatal in both fiction and real life.
