Peter Abadie is a fictional writer who specializes in
historically based novels. He takes a bland, newspaper account of an historical
situation, uses the same timeframe and characters as the event produced, weaves
in a few fictional characters, and emerges with an exciting, informing, and
sometimes threatening story.
In order to
enhance his well-researched adventures, he often incorporates his background as
a trial lawyer, an environmental company owner, along with his other many
business experiences, combining them with his travels in Europe, Africa, and
Asia. He has used this methodology throughout ten of his fictional works,
providing a reader with an alternative to history’s conventionally accepted
dogma.
From a rework of the John F. and Robert Kennedy
assassinations (Green in Judgment, Cold in Blood and A Serpent’s Egg); to an
early life of Henry Morton Stanley – the most famous African explorer – (The
Adventures of John Rowlands); to a robbery of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la
Ville de Paris (The Murder of Jane Style); to the motley lives of two thieves
crucified at the side of Jesus (Maledicto), Abadie’s mastery of his subjects is
riveting. Throw in a few crime books and several thrillers and you have the
lot.
Abadie used the French Quarter in New Orleans as his setting
in The Great Reprimand; Chinatown in Boston is the crime scene of another
thriller in Serial is not a Breakfast Food; a convoluted romance emerges in the
castles of Wales, where the travails of the coal mining industry, meshed with a
backdrop of World War I, provide additional color in Pygmalion’s Last Stand.
Two psychiatrists, one a serial killer, match wits to see who will be the last
one standing in Time’s Up. Finally, in his novel Privately Held, a thriller set
in Boston, Abadie unearths the soft underbelly of the corporate world, and the
even softer underbelly of Brahmin high society.
Protagonists
become so intertwined with history in one of Abadie’s stories, it becomes
difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. His expert background in geology, physics, and law emerge as
backdrops in many of his dramas. In 2004, the government of The Federal
Republic of Nigeria and The Democratic Republic of São Tomé e Principe accepted
his work, The Environmental Guidelines applicable within the Nigeria-São Tomé e
Principe Joint Development Zone, as the controlling law in their offshore
waters.
Abadie brings
an abundance of self-deprecating humor to his one non-fiction work, The Stigma
of Jeanne, as he traces his roots from Syria, to Spain, to France, and finally
to the United States where he was born and embarks on the most inexplicable and
hysterically funny adventures. A reader might feel they were being led down a
fallacious path; but they were not. It’s all true.
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