My first novel, Treasure of Saint-Lazare, was chosen best historical mystery of its year by Readers' Favorite. It is a taut tale of World War II riches lost and found, and continues to be my top seller. Three other novels continued the story up to the present. Last Stop: Paris was a finalist in Shelf Unbound Magazine's "Best Indie Book of the Year" competition.
I wanted to write spy novels even before I set out on a journalism career that took me from Civil Rights era Mississippi, to Washington for finance and economics coverage, to Germany and Paris to edit magazines, and then to various cities and careers in the United States. Finally, I could turn to my old goal of becoming a spy novelist.
As a fringe benefit of the considerable research that’s involved, I get to be a part-time Parisian, working part of each year back in the hometown of the old International Herald Tribune, where my wife and I both worked as German-language correspondents while we lived in Frankfurt. After yet another career in Florida, we sold our business and moved back to Washington, where I spend my days working on books yet unwritten.
My first novel, Treasure of Saint-Lazare, was chosen best historical mystery of its year by Readers' Favorite. It is a taut tale of World War II riches lost and found, and continues to be my top seller. Three other novels continued the story up to the present. Last Stop: Paris was a finalist in Shelf Unbound Magazine's "Best Indie Book of the Year" competition.
I wanted to write spy novels even before I set out on a journalism career that took...
