Twisted Reasons - Paperback

by Geza Tatrallyay (Author)

TWISTED REASONS, the first in a trilogy of international thrillers based on arms and human trafficking from a modern 'rogue' Russian state, is the tale of two college friends who get drawn into the heist of nuclear material from a former Soviet site. Arriving in Vienna to find that his friend Adam Kallay, an official at the International Atomic Energy Agency, is presumed dead, crime novelist Greg Martens teams up with Interpol Agent Anne Rossiter and Julia, Kallay's Russian girlfriend, to solve the case and track the disappearance from a former Soviet nuclear site of enough uranium to make a bomb. The story moves from espionage entrepot Vienna to radioactivity contaminated Chelyabinsk and to front-line Georgia, as the three combat arms merchants allied to Russian secret police to prevent the stolen uranium from getting into the wrong hands. Along the way, Greg learns brutal truths about himself and his family.

Author Biography

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Geza escaped with his family in 1956 during the Hungarian Revolution, immigrating to Canada the same year. He grew up in Toronto, attending the University of Toronto Schools, where he was School Captain. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Human Ecology in 1972 after taking a break in his studies to work as a host in the Ontario Pavilion at Expo'70 in Osaka, Japan. Geza was selected as a Rhodes Scholar from Ontario, attending Oxford University and graduating with a BA / MA in Human Sciences in 1974; he completed his studies with a MSc in Economics from London School of Economics and Politics in 1975. Geza represented Canada as an épée fencer in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. Geza is a prolific writer and has produced thrillers, memoirs and a collection of poetry. You can buy and learn more about them by following the links below. He is currently finishing a thriller about a coup d'état in France as well as finalizing the second book in the Cold War Escape Trilogy. His next project is to complete the second volume of the Twisted Trilogy. Geza's professional experience has included stints in government, international organizations, finance and environmental entrepreneurship. Since 2004, he has been managing a few investments mainly in the clean energy sector and devoting himself to his family and his writing. He is on the Origination / Investment Committee of Syntaxis Capital, a mezzanine fund investing in Central and Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. Geza is a citizen of Canada and Hungary, and currently divides his time between Bordeaux, France, and Barnard, Vermont, with frequent trips back to the many places he has lived, including New York, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Budapest, Vienna and Montevideo.