Ron Smith wakes up in the hospital with memories that abruptly stop ten years before. Even more bewilderingly, everyone is telling him he is Stan Craftsman—a fact that seems indisputable when he looks in the mirror and sees a face he doesn’t recognize.
So which man is he?
With the help of Stan’s devoted wife, Belinda, Ron sets out to unravel the mystery behind his own identity…but soon discovers that he may not have been the kind of man worth remembering at all. Both the FBI and a Mexican drug family are after him for the $20 million that disappeared into untraceable offshore accounts around the same time he did.
The FBI suspects Stan is the engineer of a brilliantly evil plot. But Belinda’s sister’s off-the-wall proposal brings a strange sense of relief to both Ron and Belinda. The unsettling possibility that he possesses the body of Stan would mean that rather than being a stone-cold criminal, Ron is, in fact, dead.
A suspense-filled journey that takes you from Chicago to Minneapolis to the mountains of southern Colorado, Mr. Smith? has plenty of twists, turns and surprises in store.
Frank Heiberger grew up in Chicago as the middle child of seven. Writing since the age of twelve, he went on to work as a market researcher, computer consultant, computer store manager, industrial tool salesman, real estate attorney, and data analyst—but through it all, he never stopped writing.
He was a child of the 1960’s. Hippies, The Vietnam War, the first moon landing, the evolution of Rock and Roll - these were the influences of his formative years. Along with those, he was influenced and inspired by a variety of authors; Raymond Chandler, Len Deighton, Ross McDonald, and Robert Ludlum amongst them. As a result, his writing blends old world style with modern values to bring easy to read stories with strong, relatable characters to life.
He currently lives with his daughter and their pack of housecats in Des Plaines, Illinois, where he enjoys tending his indoor jungle, entertaining, investigating paranormal activity, and wine making. He’s rather handy in the woodshop and kitchen too.