I’ve done my part…

Authors’ weapons are their words and their military campaigns their novels. Considering these truths, I’ve done my part to wage battles against autocrats. The Midas Bomb (2009), one of my early novels, painted Venezuela as an autocratic hell—something it became beyond anything I could imagine—and that theme appeared later as well, most notably in Soldiers of God (2008), where yet another Venezuelan dictator launches the first nuclear attack in the Southern Hemisphere against Colombia. The bad gu...