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Peter Bernhardt

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As I approached my prime, I developed the powerful urge to write thrillers. My wife harbored the absurd suspicion midlife crisis had struck, because I was bound in those days to courtroom and desk at the U.S. Attorney’s Office. So my dream remained just that for a long time. As soon as I retired, though, we moved to Arizona and I took things in hand by enrolling in a workshop for wannabe authors. German is my native tongue, not English, and my experience as an author consisted of the publication of a couple of student papers and law journal articles, plus cranking out numberless legal pleadings and briefs. What was I thinking?

The workshop was a bust, but it did push me into tackling my first book, The Stasi File – Opera and Espionage: A De
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Peter Thank you, Susan. Happy writing. Peter.


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Susan Bernhardt Peter, I looked to see if my son was on goodreads and then saw that you were here and remembered our emails about dinner...lol. Glad to have you as a friend here. Thanks. Susan


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