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  <name><![CDATA[George Mastras]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[George Mastras has worked as a criminal investigator for the public defender service, a counselor at a maximum security juvenile correctional facility, and a litigator in New York and Los Angeles. After ten years of practicing law, he quit his job, sold his belongings, and spent several years backpacking around the globe and trekking in the Himalayas, Karakorams, and Hindu Kush.  Aside from writing fiction, he has worked as a screenwriter and currently writes for the Emmy Award-winning drama Breaking Bad, for which he was nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 2008.  Born in Boston, he is a graduate of Yale, UCLA Law, and Outward Bound.  He was awarded the competitive Disney-ABC Writing Fellowship for Television Drama in 2005. He lives in Los Angeles.  His hobbies include film, the Himalayas, traveling to remote places without maps, martial arts, the oboe, bourbon and other brown liquids, fly-fishing, shooting inanimate objects that make sound when you hit them, and not growing up.  He is not at all self-conscious about playing with dolls with his young daughters.  ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Kazantzakis, Hesse, Ayn Rand, Cormack McCarthy, Tom McGuane,  Jack Kerouac, John Fowles, Steinbeck]]></influences>    <hometown>Boston, Massachusetts</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Fidali's Way: A Novel]]></title>
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