An audiobook of "Sleeper" is in production and should be our early next month.

Assignment: Bosnia is now in an audiobook available at this link:http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B00EV19BH2&qid=1377880454&sr=1-1

"Assignment: Bosnia" narrated by the dramatic voice of Roger Friedman will soon be available on Amazon Audiobooks. Click on the "Download File" link above to listen to a sample chapter. 

There is an excellent article in the Washington Post comparing the genocide that took place in Bosnia Herzegovina in the 1990s and in Syria today.  If you need historical background read the novel Assignment: Bosnia

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the book. It’s been a movie  and a musical. In all of them, Jekyll is the good guy and Hyde is a monster. What if the roles were reversed? Would you like to find out? Read “Hyde.”

Memories are short. Way back in 1995 there was a war in the Balkans. Since most people in the United States didn’t know (or care) about what was going on outside their borders, the fact that  Bosnians and Serbs were killing each other, brought on little but yawns. I was reminded of the event by a recent story on the back pages of the New York Times  reporting that the people of that region are still digging up bodies from that war.

For anyone interested in recent history, and anyone who likes a suspenseful novel, read “Assignment: Bosnia.”  

In case you haven’t noticed, Cleveland, my old home town, has become a focus of notoriety. First there was the guy who stashed away three women for years and now there’s a serial killer who packs his victims in plastic bags until the odor leads to their discovery.

So what’s new? Serial murdering has been around Northeastern Ohio since the novel Dead End. Okay,the setting is Akron-Canton-Youngstown, but close enough. We don’t know the motivation for the Cleveland killings, but Dead End’s murderer had a genuine agenda, one that is so unique I doubt if you’ll find it anywhere else in life or literature.

The headline in the sports pages reads “Star quarterback (pick a name) is out for the season with a fractured tibia.” Since Aesculapius or some other ancient Greek physician started practicing medicine, the elusive Holy Grail has been to find a superglue for broken bones. Imagine a world where it was no longer necessary to spend months in a smelly, itchy cast, or undergo an operation where plates and screws were needed to hold fractured bones together until they healed.

Well, the fantasy is at hand. “Fracture” is the name of a book  in which a young doctor, himself a fracture victim, has discovered the secret to natural healing of broken bones at a rate that exceeds the wildest dreams. Of course, the path is not without risks since an entire industry had been built on conventional methods of fracture treatment. The ensuing tug of war makes for a suspenseful tale.   

In South Africa a man awoke after seven years in a coma. In Arkansas a man awoke after nineteen years in coma resulting from a car accident. Almost every week similar events are reported. Most of the comas are induced by head injuries or infections, but there are more than fifty conditions that can lead to coma. When a child becomes comatose, in the absence of a history of trauma, the cause is usually infection which can range from encephalitis to a systemic infection with accompanying high fever. In rare instances the cause is difficult to determine.

I have published a book, “Sleeper” based on a true story in which a seven-year-old girl became comatose, recovered consciousness, then lapsed into coma on several occasions. The account of a young doctor’s attempt to find the cause of the child’s problem while faced with pressure from relatives and hospital administrators, makes for a riveting and suspenseful tale.