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Barry Willdorf

Barry Willdorf

About

I am a graduate of Colby College and Columbia Law School. I am an AV rated trial attorney. My historical novel, The Flight of the Sorceress, (Wild Child Publishing, 2010) won a Global E-Book Award for best historical literature and was a finalist for a 2012 EPIC Historical Fiction award. Whiskey Creek Press published my mystery-thriller, Burning Questions, in August 2011 and my suspense-thriller A Shot in the Arm in April 2012. Another suspense-thriller, The Fourth Conspirator will be published in September 2012. I recently published an e-book, See You In Court!, "What lawyers' know about trials that YOU should too." It is available at Scribd and Smashwords.

Commitment

Commitment

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<p>It’s hard to be committed to anyone when you don’t know whom to trust.</p><p>Alexis Toles, a former FBI agent turned undercover CIA agent, is quickly finding that out in Nancy Ann Healy’s newest political thriller, <i>Commitment</i>.</p><p>Alex embeds in a secret organization of intelligence operatives known as The Collaborative. Its partners include operatives from the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI, US Department of Defense, and an entanglement of foreign intelligence agencies.</p><p>It’s about half a year after the death of President John Merrow, a friend and someone she respected. But she remains committed to overthrowing The Collaborative as she works with a onetime adversary who believes the organization’s involved in the president’s death.</p><p>Meanwhile Alex; her wife, Cassidy O’Brien; and Cassidy’s son try hard to live as a family but must first overcome personal struggles, including a nasty custody battle with Cassidy’s ex-husband, Congressman Christopher O’Brien. The family has their own share of secrets that, if unleashed, could affect their hopes for the future.</p><p>There’s no place to turn without discovering people who are not who they claim to be. That can’t stop Alex. She must remain committed to the cause, both at home and as she works against The Collaborative.</p>

Story Behind The Book

The story was inspired by an actual trial I did in Marin County in the late 1970s.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">In <em>A Shot in the Arm</em>, Barry Willdorf once more writes up a storm.  Just as in the previous installment, <em>Burning Questions</em>, attorney Nate Lewis bumbles his way into a dark murder plot, but it's the reader who gets hooked.  Willdorf’s <span>re-creation of period is right on the money, and his characters rock.</span> <span>His trilogy is a brilliant creation!  </span>I wasn't able to put the book down.<span></span></span><strong><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Mark Rudd, author of <em>Underground: My life in SDS and the Weathermen</em></span></strong><span style="font-family:Garamond;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> </span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">A fast-moving novel. Plenty of twists and turns. The legal details are sharp; the drinking and drugging and low life neighborhoods are Day-Glo vivid.  I was glad to know there’s at least one more novel out there about Nate Lewis and his world. <strong>Meredith Sue Willis, author of <em>Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel</em> </strong>and <strong><em>Out of the Mountains</em> </strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">The latest in Barry Willdorf's noir-ish series is a detective story with a sense of geography, a sense of morality, and a sense of humor. Set in San Francisco in the 1970s and written by a lawyer with street cred who lived through those turbulent times, <em>A Shot in the Arm</em> is also a blast to read. Just add java. <strong>Frances Lefkowitz, author of <em>To Have Not</em>.</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> </span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Barry Willdorf knows the lawyer's brain and feels the City's heart, producing a non-stop thrill-ride through San Francisco in the early 70s as a &quot;people's lawyer&quot; and his waitress girlfriend try to escape a web of smack, shady rehab, covert operations and murder. Gripping. Exciting. Add &quot;A Shot in the Arm&quot; to the classic tales of the City by the Bay. <strong>Hilton Obenzinger, author of </strong></span><span class="citation"><strong><em><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Cannibal Eliot</span></em></strong></span><span class="citation"><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> <strong><em>and the Lost Histories of San Francisco </em></strong>and <strong><em>Busy Dying</em></strong></span></span><span class="citation"><span style="font-family:Garamond;">.</span></span></p>