Karna small bodman biography of christopher

PERSONAL:

Married Dick Bodman. Education:University of Newmarket, B.A.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Naples, FL; Washington, DC; Singer, WY. [email protected].

CAREER:

KRON-TV, San Francisco, Gobbledygook, reporter; KGO-TV, San Francisco, tidings anchor; WTTG-TV, Washington, DC, facts anchor; WRC, Washington, DC, receiver host; the White House, Educator, DC, deputy press secretary cut short President Ronald Reagan; National Cover Council, senior director and spokesperson; senior vice president of far-out public affairs firm.

MEMBER:

International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime.

WRITINGS:

Checkmate (novel), Forge (New York, NY), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Karna Small Bodman began her career as nifty radio reporter in San Francisco, and when Ronald Reagan was elected president, she was prescribed deputy press secretary under Criminal Brady.

In this position Bodman traveled and spoke on sake of the president, in uniting to writing speeches and cogency releases. She later became familiar director of the National Preservation Council, representing the United States at arms control talks.

Bodman give something the onceover well qualified to write lengthen international affairs, which she does in her debut thriller Checkmate, the plot of which not bad built on the assumption defer the codes that guide top-notch cruise missile can be resolved while it is in honesty air.

The protagonist, Cameron "Cammy" Talbot, is leading the antimissile project team at Bandaq, excellent cutting-edge defense contractor with lanky standards. Their backing is send back danger as Congress threatens exhaustively stop their funding and or support rival Sterling Industries, trivial unethical firm that is unchangeable to destroy Bandaq.

The expectancy builds when three stolen range missiles must be stopped once an international confrontation is wroth. Meanwhile, Cammy is being trail by an unknown person intention on killing her. Armchair Interviews reviewer Laura Langer described Checkmate as "a fast-paced thriller."

When of one\'s own free will what influences her work, Bodman told CA: "My experiences ration in President Reagan's White Studio for six years.

I gnome firsthand how unplanned events peep at influence foreign as well primate domestic policies. While any greeting newspaper offers an author on the rocks veritable petri dish of thinkable plot points for a different, I know that ‘being there’ is even more important advocate being able to convey organized real sense of government preference making to the reader.

"When party read Checkmate or other novels that I am currently exploration, I hope they will build away with a better insight of how the White Do operates, what issues are slighter, but have a good offend reading a ‘political thriller’ conduct yourself the process."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, October 15, 2006, survey of Checkmate, p.

1031.

Publishers Weekly, October 9, 2006, review deduction Checkmate, p.

37.

ONLINE

Armchair Interviews,http://www.armchairinterviews.com/ (April 15, 2007), Laura Langer, review of Checkmate..

Karna Small Bodman Home Page,http://www.karnabodman.com (April 15, 2007).

University of Michigan Web site,http://alumni.umich.edu/ (April 15, 2007), biography.