"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
I have been known to quote Raymond Chandler as pickup lines in shady bars and I do most of my research in the apartments of tall blonds. I am an amateur bass player nicknamed The Dirty Lowdown, and have published short stories and poetry in magazines that have strangely gone out of print. Having lost most of my eye sight to an auto-immune disease, and not finding a great demand for blind engineers I am reinventing myself as a writer.
By profession, I am a degreed electrical engineer who minored in European History. I spent nearly 9 years in the military and saw a lot of the world during that time doing many interesting jobs. Communications Security, Cryptography ,carrying a very large radio in unfriendly places, and teaching NSA computer systems. I've spent most of my civilian career in the I.T. world. I've worked for internationals telco companies, fortune 500's, owned my own networking company and spent 13 years on and off teaching at the university level.
I have always been a voracious reader, everything from the classics, to popular fiction, history to science but I have a special place in my heart for crime fiction, especially hard-boiled detective fiction and noir. I write a book review blog for all genres at The Dirty Lowdown.I also write about some of the fun things happening in the world of "book technology" including eReaders, Tablets and software. I also write a book review blog dedicated to Crime Fiction and all things Noir called Crimeways after the magazine that appeared in the Kenneth Fearing classic, The Big Clock. There I write scholarly reviews of the classic books from the 20's through today. I also write extended bios and histories of the authors, literary innovations and history of the genre.
Robert Carraher
Portland, OR
the.dirty.lowdown@gmail.com
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