Stolen Thoughts
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Grigori shook his head. “No, that’s not my plan.”
The edges of the cornflower eyes contracted ever so slightly. “Why not?”
“Let’s just say, widening the funnel does more than raise IQ.”
Korovin frowned and leaned back, taking a moment to digest this twist. “Why have you brought this to me, Grigori?”
“As I said, Mister President, I have a plan I think you’re going to like.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tim Tigner began his career in Soviet Counterintelligence with the U.S. Army Special Forces, the Green Berets. That was back in the Cold War days when, “We learned Russian so you didn't have to,” something he did at the Presidio of Monterey alongside Recon Marines and Navy SEALs.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, Tim switched from espionage to arbitrage. Armed with a Wharton MBA rather than a Colt M16, he moved to Moscow in the midst of Perestroika. There he led prominent multinational medical companies, worked with cosmonauts on the MIR Space Station (from Earth, alas), chaired the Association of International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, and helped write Russia’s first law on healthcare.
Moving to Brussels during the formation of the EU, Tim ran Europe, Middle East and Africa for a Johnson & Johnson company and traveled like a character in a Robert Ludlum novel. He eventually landed in Silicon Valley, where he launched new medical technologies as a startup CEO.
In his free time, Tim has climbed the peaks of Mount Olympus, hang-glided from the cliffs of Rio de Janeiro, and ballooned over Belgium. He earned scuba certification in Turkey, learned to ski in Slovenia, and ran the Serengeti with a Maasai warrior. He acted on stage in Portugal, taught negotiations in Germany, and chaired a healthcare conference in Holland. Tim studied psychology in France, radiology in England, and philosophy in Greece. He has enjoyed ballet at the Bolshoi, the opera on Lake Como, and the symphony in Vienna. He’s been a marathoner, paratrooper, triathlete, and yogi.
Intent on combining his creativity with his experience, Tim began writing thrillers in 1996 from an apartment overlooking Moscow’s Gorky Park. Decades later, his passion for creative writing continues to grow every day. His home office now overlooks a vineyard in Northern California, where he lives with his two daughters.
Tim grew up in the Midwest, and graduated from Hanover College in 1990 with a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics. After military service and work as a financial analyst and foreign-exchange trader, he earned an MBA in Finance and an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton and Lauder Schools on a full-ride scholarship.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I rely heavily on generous fans for guidance while writing my novels. They make my books better and I’m grateful to them all. Many have helped me for years and have become good virtual friends who I “see” at our annual “reunions.” David Berkowitz is among them.
Doug went quiet between feedback rounds on Stolen Thoughts and I learned that he passed in late July from liver cancer. I didn’t know that he was sick, but I do know that I’ll miss him every time I write a book. Rest in peace, my friend.
Editor: Suzanne S. Barnhill
Technical Consultant: Joe Chasko
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