I was born on the island of Hydra, Greece and went to school in Thessaloniki, Greece. I left Greece in 1965 for the United States and studied Chemical Engineering on a scholarship at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. Graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree and worked as a Chemical Engineer, PE, for fifty years building Power Plants, Refineries, Industrial Infrastructures and Defense Department projects all over the world. Retired at the end of 2020 from engineering and started writing controversial speculative fiction. I am a Published Author of six books in print. My second book was nominated for a Pulitzer. I am currently writing the outline for book number seven, titled WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT, a speculative international thriller. My hobbies are: Sailing, Fly Fishing, Golf, Chess, Reading, Writing and smoking good cigars.