The Translator: A Dov Bar-Lev Mystery

by Marc Lieberman

FBI agent Dov Bar-Lev and Santa Fe PI Thomas Kuzmic solve the theft of an alien spacecraft, the kidnapping of several children, and the murder of the kidnapped children's father.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Marc Lieberman is a national winner of the Moeller Prize for excellence in Journalism and initially self-published an earlier version of his book entitled The Translator, which was a 2007-2008 finalist of the Indie Awards and Best Books, USA Book News. Marc and his wife Cindy divide their time between their log cabin in Durango, Colorado and an adobe near Carefree, Arizona. Sign of the Anasazi features numerous encounters with bears, perhaps because as a teenager, Marc and his brother Richard had a pet black bear while living on a remote lake deep in the Canadian wilderness. Marc successfully scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, 2007, and was a crewmember with the LaSalle Expedition II, an authentic re-enactment over the course of nearly a year of LaSalle’s 1681 3,300-mile canoe trek from Montreal to the Gulf of Mexico. He has motorcycled the Baja 500 and dove with sharks in the Caribbean, and climbed to Machu Pichu.

Reviews

[Carole Bartholomeaux · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is not only great beach reading, but it's wonderful for educators trying to help young men enjoy reading. It's written in short chapters to appeal to the limited interest of boys used to instant gratification with their Game Boys. The book is a little bit mystery, action-adventure, with a bit of sci-fi, thrown in but also teaches history and how man can relate to other creatures. This is Marc Lieberman's first novel--he is an attorney by day--but it will not be his last.