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  <name><![CDATA[Robert Buettner]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I began writing fiction in 1994.  Opposing counsel who read my briefs would argue that I was doing so long before that.

Born July 7 long ago on Manhattan Island, I grew up in Cleveland and eventually slid west to Colorado.

A flirtation with the military academies lasted as long as it took Annapolis' recruiters to decide that small tackles could protect Roger Staubach - but not that small.  I earned a B.A. from the College of Wooster, with Honors in geology, then studied as a National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology at the University of Cincinnati.

I left Cincinnati with a Juris Doctorate and an Army Intelligence Lieutenancy, both unmarketable credentials as Vietnam wound down.  During those years, I worked in mining as a rig hand and prospector in the Sonoran Desert of Southwest Texas and the mountains of Alaska and worked my way through law school as a petroleum geologist.

I practiced natural resources law internationally and in the American West while I served out my Army-Reserve Intelligence Commission as a Captain.  Some Cold-War oil-employee reservists did spy, an avocation here disclaimed.  Of course, as the CIA's Kim Roosevelt wrote about a former intelligence officer, &quot;He claimed he had left that field entirely...but neither I nor anyone who knew of that interruption in a life...would ever feel sure of that.&quot;

When I'm not writing, I run marathons, climb mountains, snowboard and scuba.  I've lately traded in my running shoes and swim fins for bikes road and mountain.  I do all this as ineffectually as I spied.

I have recently divided my writing time between the foothills of the Blue Ridge and of the Colorado Rockies. ]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Manhattan</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Orphanage]]></title>
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  <average_rating>3.74</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>89</ratings_count>
  <published>2004</published>  
  
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        <book id="202771">
  <title><![CDATA[Orphan's Destiny]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Buettner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.76</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>59</ratings_count>
  <published>2005</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Orphan's Journey]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Robert Buettner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.82</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>55</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Orphan's Alliance]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Robert Buettner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>39</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Orphan's Triumph]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Buettner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.05</average_rating>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Orphan's Triumph]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Buettner]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.56</average_rating>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Orphanage (Jason Wander Series #1)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Robert Buettner]]></name>
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