With the new millenium, I moved away from the nine to five and into what was supposed to be retirement,  Simultaneously, an unexpected impetus excited my life: I wanted to find out whether I could write fiction. Writing itself was no particular problem since I had been successful in turning out a book on executive search, another on cross-cultural learning and over 30 professional articles. But fiction? Yes, I had my mother and her several books for young teens as a model and I was a reader of all kinds of fiction. Could I now turn what I knew second-hand into my own style of creativity? One day I sat down to answer that question and eventually found multiple answers in Hidden Impact (2005), Patriot Schemes (2006), Peace Corpse (October 2008) Hard Cache (August 2010), and the forthcoming, Dire Salvation. Between books (and sometimes in the middle of writing them), I explore poetry, selections of which can be found on Authorsden.