Bo was a legendary Russian basketball player. It had been five years since he retired from the EuroLeague. Now he ran an international business that sold anything and everything related to basketball. He was absolutely charming. And for a price, he'd deliver anything. ~ Someday, Bo would settle down and marry Zella, his Romanian sweetheart. In the meantime, he had a girl in every port. The money was rolling in. He was on top of the world. ~ Then suddenly, everything changed. Out of the blue, the Russian foreign intelligence service recruited him for one exotic mission. He was to become buddies with North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un. ~ From beginning to end, this is a story of deception, mysteries and unexpected secrets.

In past careers, the author has been a lawyer, an administrator, and a chief editor. He spent 23 years with Caltech at NASA JPL, where he handled institutional operations. ~ Now he's an indie author and publisher of fiction. This is his debut novel. He's a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association. He lives in Los Angeles. ~ Visit his WordburgerHut.com to see more about the author and the book. ~ The genesis of Wordburger Hut? Originally, the wordburger stand was an imaginary place where words were made into poems. It resembled a concession booth in a nighttime carnival. But it sat all by itself on the side of a dark, leafy, country road under a starry sky, where it was brilliantly illuminated with string lights. Eventually, the stand became a hut and words were also made into fictional little stories. Now it celebrates a novel.