The Graham Gage novels are seeded not with actual people and events, but with the logic and meaning of the investigative life as I lived it.

It was a career that took me, among so many other places, to a smuggling port on the North China Sea, to a gambling den in Bangkok, to a prison in Lugansk, to an underground bank in Hong Kong, and into courtrooms in a dozen countries. It also put me in meetings with drug syndicates in the Golden Triangle, corrupt police officers in Mexico, sex traffickers in India, snakeheads in Taipei and San Francisco, and fraudsters from Ahmadabad to Zurich.

Eventually, the time came to toss my PI license into a drawer and to turn from fact to fiction, from what happened to what if, from miles traveled to words written, and from scams investigated to stories told. The result is the Graham Gage series.