In 2001, one or more persons unleashed a series of attacks - letters filled with deadly anthrax powder - five people died and 22 more were infected. In seven years, the FBI failed to solve the case. Then, in the summer of 2008, the FBI announced that a scientist who had never in those seven years been formally accused or even designated as a "person of interest," and who had just the week before allegedly committed suicide, was the sole perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks. According to the FBI, this one scientist prepared the lethal anthrax powder, got it out of the U.S. Army lab near Washington, D.C. where he worked, put it into multiple envelopes, and took those envelopes to a mailbox in Princeton, N.J. There are no witnesses or forensic evidence to connect this scientist with the attacks. It seems impossible that he could even have been in Princeton to mail the letters when the FBI says he was there. And the science the FBI says it used to prove its case is very much unproven. CASE CLOSED presents one possible (fictional) sequence of events to explain the FBI's failure. Says one well-placed source in the Intelligence Community: This story, unfortunately, is "all too plausible."
I became an author during the latter part of a long career in management, finally taking my high school English teacher's advice that I should write. My first novel was published when I was 60. Since I retired and became a full-time author in 2005, three more novels have been published.
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PUBLISHED NOVELS ... The Heretic (2000); A Good Conviction (2007); Case Closed (2009); The Pope's Conspiracy (2012)
SPANISH EDITION ... The Heretic was published in Spanish (2012) under the title "Hereje."
CURRENT PROJECT ... I'm working on a novel set in 20th century Germany and Poland.
EDUCATION ... Princeton University (BSE) and Harvard Business School (MBA)
MANAGEMENT CAREER ... from 1991-2005, I was the CEO of The Public Health Research Institute, a biomedical research organization focused on infectious diseases; previously President of Kinney System, the nationwide parking company; Township Manager of Cherry Hill, NJ; and a candidate for U.S. Congress (1980).
PERSONAL ... I'm married; my wife and I live in Key West in the winter and Collioure, France in the summer. We travel extensively (see our travel blog at www.patandlewtravel.wordpress.com). Between us, we have 6 children and 7 grandchildren.
