SEA FEVER coming soon!

I am thrilled to say the least that Sea Fever my fourth and latest novel will be published by Greenleaf Book Group, under its imprint River Grove. The story is set in Kazakhstan, a former Central Asian Soviet state that has gained independence since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. The novel has taken over six years in its creation, involving on-site research that took me to the now defunct Gulag in Dolinka in the northeast of Kazakhstan and the Aral Sea region in the west. Over fifteen years of travels to that former Soviet republic since 2000, and getting to know and love the land and the people there, I felt I owed them a story. The result is Sea Fever, a novel set in the Aral Sea region of this broad expanse of land, in area the ninth largest country in the world.

The story uses as background one of the world's worst man-orchestrated environmental disasters, the desiccation of the once fourth largest inland piece of water, the Aral Sea. Mystery and intrigue surround a former island in the shrinking sea. Sea Fever, a thriller, is scheduled for publication in late September, 2022. Stay tuned. 

 A Ship Graveyard where abandoned skeletal remains of fishing boats lay scattered on the Aral's drying shores