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BY EverLeigh0
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Thriller/Espionage
Date Published: 07-04-2025
Publisher: Logikal Solutions
In life, the journey is the reward. Old Timer certainly has had a
journey through this life. For nearly forty years he has been both a geek and
an assassin. Despite someone at his company having given him the contract
decades ago, nobody there actually knew what he did, just that the client
paid. Had he told anyone about it, especially his coworkers, they would have
laughed in his face.
Since late January, 1992, he has kept a secret . . . and souvenirs.
Secrets were common currency in his world, but souvenirs were against company
policy and strictly forbidden.
Presented as a novel. Any names, dates, events or places that happen to
exist in the world you know are strictly coincidental. Take the journey that
is about to start. Find out how Ukraine saved the world from nuclear war in
1992 and what they did is still saving it today because nobody ever found out.
Some readers will never think about food the same way again.
Slava Ukraini! Heroiam slava!
bon appétit
Interview
What is the hardest part of writing your books?
Time. There is always something else going on when the characters wish to speak to me and I’m not always where I can write it down. When I’m available, they often go quiet. This isn’t writer’s block, they simply choose not to speak.
What are your most played songs?
That depends on when you are asking. Most played while I’m writing software or books? That’s a lot of what I call “space music” which many are starting to call “Trance” these days. Blackmill’s Home and Autumn albums. Trance 100 – Winter 2021 album. Quite a bit of Zero One, Bond, and Lindsey Sterling. So many really. It is mostly music having few to zero words. Sometimes with a great beat and other times just a soothing background. It’s purpose is to provide a pleasant “cone of silence” from the outside world so I can write what the characters tell me.
Driving? Mostly classic rock, AC/DC, John Waite, The Babys, R.E.M., etc.
I carry around something like 12GB of music with random shuffle turned on so “most played” is tough to really answer.
There are some tracks everyone must have and listen to each day.
Watch the video, anti-fascist protest music hidden in plain sight.
Do you have critique partners or beta readers?
No. I gave up on that long ago. I have first round editors, second round editors, and final round editors. First round sifts through the cannon fodder.
What book are you reading now?
Honestly, I’m so busy I have very little time to read. The last book I read was Rage by Bob Woodward.
How did you start your writing career?
Long before we had Internet or even computers, my grandmother and her sisters insisted I write them as a child. It became habit. My first published book was Zinc It! Interfacing Third Party Libraries with Crossplatform GUI’s published in 1995 by John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc. Only got into writing novels and novellas over the past few decades.
Tell us about your next release.
I’m currently focused on an Open Source software project called BasisDoctrina and helping on the family farm. Harvest is just around the corner. I did start writing the sequel. Twenty of Two The Infamous They – The Druids. At least that is the working title. Some extremely interesting characters demanded to be in the sequel. We shall see when I get it done and if the title remains. Like Five Nuclear Wars You Can Win, it doesn’t go where you think it will. That book was a very long journey. Oldest backup files I found went back to 2008. Old Timer wasn’t even in the early versions. An author must listen to the characters. Not just the ones speaking loudest or most often, but the ones with the really interesting story.
About the Author
Roland Hughes is the president of Logikal Solutions, a business
applications consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS platforms and embedded
systems development for medical devices. Hughes serves as a lead consultant
with roughly four decades of experience using computers and operating systems.
With a degree in Computer Information Systems, the author's experience is
focused on systems across a variety of diverse industries including heavy
equipment manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, stock exchanges, tax accounting, and
hardware value-added resellers, to name a few. Working throughout these
industries has strengthened the author's unique skill set and given him a
broad perspective on the role and value of technology in industry.
When he is not consulting or writing geek books for his award winningThe Minimum You Need to Know technical book series or helping out on the family farm, he writes novels and blog posts. You can find him on logikalblog.com and interestingauthors.com/blog
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