Publisher's Note: I hope everyone has had a joyful Christmas and I took solace in this one small portion of the year where most Christians actually give the lie to Gandhi's keen observation on the same: "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." Then of course they back to their usual habits the remainder of the year.

This has been an eventful year for me and I am finally home from the Hindu Kush to stay.

My novel, The Cancer Club: A Fourth Generation Warfare Thriller is going to the editor in January. It will be available on Kindle and I am contemplating whether I will actually publish an actual book not simply on electrons.

I excerpted two parts here: