The Malthus Confederation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781412068789)

Ed Jeffer started out to be an English teacher and writer and wound up in medical school. He started out to become a surgeon and wound up a psychiatrist. He planned on a career split between private practice and teaching medical students and instead, spent 26 years in the U. S. Army. As a military physician, Dr. Jeffer had the opportunity to do clinical work, serve on five university faculties, command hospitals and health clinics and serve on the staffs of three combat divisions. Extremely instructive tours were spent as the Chief, Office of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Control for Europe and the Middle East and the Forensic Psychiatry Consultant for Europe. Also, he was the Chief of Quality Assurance for Army Medicine World-wide, Psychiatry Consultant for Operation Desert Storm, and Chief Medical Officer for the Army National Guard with responsibility for all 54 jurisdictions. His last eight years were spent in Pentagon assignments.

Along the way, he was still able to hold on to his love of writing. He had two plays produced, sold numerous stories and published over fifty articles in medical journals. Wanting to write a novel in the genre of Frank Norris and the muckrakers, he wound up with a book very much in the spirit of Robert Ludlum with a little bit of Dr. Phil. He and his wife have visited the seven continents and over one hundred countries and reside in Falls Church, Virginia.