I’ve always been a story-teller, but it took a sea-change in my life–occasioned by my forced retirement from the practice of neurosurgery–to get me started writing books of fiction, and a couple of nonfiction works. My books come about from assiduous research and a creative and eclectic imagination. The subject matter in my twenty-nine books ranges from action/thrillers, suspenseful spy thrillers and war, to historical fiction, to medical narrative, and to fictional biography. I have seen my fiction as being somewhat similar to John Grisham, Amor Towles, Leon Uris, Tom Clancy, and most recently, Noah Gordon. I write about intelligent, courageous, flawed, demanding, beautiful, resourceful, and some altogether wicked characters, and makes no effort to renounce my rather professorial desire to inform, to educate, and to surprise my readers with new information. I include background history, geography, explanations, and descriptions to beguile my readers into believing that they are not just readers but actual spectators in the stories being woven.
The “neurosurgeon turned author, who writes with gripping realism”—my tag line—has taken a long time to determine who my ideal readers are. I have yet to be able to define my precise genre or niche. The readers to whom and for whom I write are: intelligent, educated, and highly literate; love adventure and surprises; read to learn as well as to be entertained; and people who are satisfied only with well told stories that are real enough to make the reader doubt that they are fiction. I do not mince words, use euphemisms, or take a Pollyanna view of human kind. I concentrate on the real, the funny, the sad, and the unusual, stories of the human condition—the stuff of life and of people placed in extremity with great conundrums to solve.
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