About Z (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781434820839)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Don Clark is a retired USAF Colonel, university administrator and faculty member. While in the USAF he served and lived in Japan, USSR, and Turkey and visited or worked for short periods in almost every continent and major nation. He was a military attache in the USSR, and worked within the NSC system on strategic international negotiations such as: SALT, MBFR and Law of the Sea. He also taught international affairs at the Air University and twice received Best Article Awards for papers he wrote for the AIR UNIVERSITY REVIEW. From 1974-94 he was at Montana State University where he served first as the Assistant to the President and then began MSU's International Programs. He taught extremely popular courses on international issues and was frequently awarded outstanding teacher citations from student organizations and faculty groups, including the prestigious Burlington Northern Teaching Excellence Award. During his time at MSU Mr. Clark, was published in journals as diverse as the EDUCATIONAL REVIEW, SKIING, and THE ALTERNATIVE. He wrote weekly newspaper columns on national and international issues for several daily papers, excerpts from which were often broadcast on Voice of America. A collection of the best of those articles was published under the title THE WORLD & US. He wrote a textbook for an introductory class on international affairs named MACRO-FAMILY STUDIES which was also used in Japan. He has appeared on TV from New York to Montana, from Germany to Japan and lectured around the state and world on strategic international issues. Mr. Clark began writing novels in 1998. Most of his works have an international theme and proffer solutions to national and international problems. All of his novels are about courage, romance, and overcoming unexpected challenges. All ten of them include some violence, although that violence consistently has consequences and is reflective of the world we live in rather than a suggested means of problem resolution. Mr. Clark speaks Russian, Turkish, Texan and Bureaucratize. He is a third degree Black Belt in Kodokan Judo, loves tennis, jet and snow skiing, reading and a good debate. He intersperses humor with his ideas about a how to mold a better world.