With sixteen years of writing behind me, I bring a lifetime of technical insight, national-security experience, and vivid personal history to suspense fiction.  Raised in suburban Detroit during its reign as the Motor Capital of the World, I earned an Electrical Engineering degree from Lawrence Technological University and spent thirty years in Information Systems Technology supporting Naval and Strategic Intelligence in the Maryland–Washington, DC, area.  After retiring to Southport, North Carolina, I turned a long-held dream into a second career as a novelist.  A proposed deep-water port on Southport’s Cape Fear River—between a nuclear power plant and Sunny Point, a strategic arms depot—sparked my debut thriller, Revenge For What Is Sacred.  Since then, I’ve continued crafting high-stakes stories shaped by unusual premises, sharp twists, and distinctive settings, including the Mace Franklyn novels Duplicity’s Child and Returning Fire, the psychological thriller One Cold Sunday, and my latest release, Faces, inspired by a familiar children's story.  Can you guess which one?.