The novel Lady Laughing is a fictional account of real events that took place in the 1990's. In 1991 and again in 1994, commercial airliners, both Boeing 737s, crashed under amazingly similar sets of circumstances. They both took place in clear weather, on approach to landings at major airports and suffered the loss of all aboard. The NTSB says the only two unsolved airline crashes were the result of "uncontrolled collision with terrain for undetermined reasons". Could that "undetermined reason" be murder? For Brad and Elizabeth, two of the coldest, most depraved contract killers ever, the first one was just practice; the second would be payday, big time. For NTSB crash investigator Art Campos, it is a maddeningly elusive puzzle. He has a photo of the killers, but nothing else. His only chance to catch them is to offer himself as bait, and time is running out.
About the Author: Born in Ohio, raised in Tucson, Arizona, and attended Tanque Verde Elementary School, Roskruge Junior High School, both in Tucson, New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico for High School, and then attended Columbia College, New York, New York for two years and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona for two years. No degrees. He worked in the land title business for a number of years before starting a data processing company with a friend. Sold his interest in that company after a few years and began working as a free-lance computer programmer. Most recently he worked as a Software Engineer for a company that provided software to the Public Health industry. He has traveled extensively in the United States missing only 6 states so far. He has lived and worked in the following cities, listed alphabetically. Atlanta, GA, Bismarck, ND, Columbus, OH, Dallas, TX, New Orleans, LA, Phoenix, AZ, Seattle, WA, and Tucson, AZ. Outside the United States he has visited Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela and worked on a Public Health project in Hong Kong for 4 weeks. He has been privileged to be a recipient of a J.C. Penney Golden Rule Award, received a commendation from the Centers for Disease Control for his work on the National Smallpox Vaccination Program and was the Tucson Daily Citizen's "Citizen of the Year" for 2000. He is divorced, has a son, 2 grandsons and 2 great-granddaughters and 2 great- grandsons. He considers himself an "animal person", is a licensed pilot, former skydiver, hiker, avid reader and lives on a small ranch is southeastern Arizona with his four rescue cats.