Which is mostly a fiction author's view of cops, robbers, terrorists, poachers, wildlife law enforcement, federal agents and crime labs, and includes:

• A brief personal history
• The beginning of writing a fiction novel
• Descriptions of my published fiction novels
• Contact Information for my Literary and Hollywood agents, and my e-mail address

But first, just in case you wandered into this home page by accident, and might be wondering what cops, robbers, terrorists, federal agents and crime labs could possibly have to do with an overgrown cat (or to be more precise, a 120 pound male cougar, complete with teeth, claws and self-serving attitude), perhaps I ought to introduce myself.

I am, by trade, a crime scene investigator, forensic scientist, wildlife crime lab director, husband, father, grandfather, supposed cattle rancher, and more to the point, a fiction author who writes fiction novels about professional terrorists, underground chemists, demented burglars and malicious poachers for any number of reasons.

At least one of which is mental health.

Why mental health, you ask? Well, imagine that you'd spent 12 years of your post-college life as a police criminalist and crime scene investigator, grubbing around the evidence of several hundred homicides, rapes and robberies while trying to link the suspects and victims to the crime scenes. Then continue to imagine that you'd spending the rest of your professional career working for the federal government, first endeavoring to create a crime lab for federal, state and international wildlife law enforcement officers ... and then trying very hard to be a non-Dilbert-like boss for roughly 35 wildlife forensic scientists and support staff who were deliberately hired for their inventive minds and free spirits as well as their forensic skills. And then, finally, imagine looking out your living room window and realizing that you actually own cows, most of whom are constantly trying to escape to the neighboring pastures and/or the local golf course for whatever reasons that possess a cow to do such things.

Any more questions about the mental health part?

I thought not.

Anyway, I set these pages up to let you poke around in my head (at least to the point of finding out something about my background and my books, if such things actually interest you), and to give you a chance to read some sample chapters from my published --- and currently available --- novels.

And finally, for those of you who aren't particularly interested in gory fiction books, or cows, but would like to know more about cops, robbers, terrorists, wildlife, federal agents or forensics, I've added a few links to what I think are some interesting forensic science home pages, one of which will give you a tour of the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Lab (my place of employment).

Happy reading ....