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Greg Ahlgren

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Manchester, NH, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Thriller, Crime

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Best selling author Greg Ahlgren is a criminal defense lawyer in Manchester, New Hampshire. He received his B.A. degree from Syracuse University and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He has been a criminal justice professor, a state legislator, and a political activist, and has appeared as a frequent guest on both national and local television and radio shows on true crime and historical issues. His books include the alternative history time-travel novel "Prologue" and the international thriller "The Medici Legacy," and together with Stephen Monier he co-authored the true crime book "Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax."

Prior to "Crime of the Century's" publication in 1993, most commentators on Amer Best selling author Greg Ahlgren is a criminal defense lawyer in Manchester, New Hampshire. He received his B.A. degree from Syracuse University and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. He has been a criminal justice professor, a state legislator, and a political activist, and has appeared as a frequent guest on both national and local television and radio shows on true crime and historical issues. His books include the alternative history time-travel novel "Prologue" and the international thriller "The Medici Legacy," and together with Stephen Monier he co-authored the true crime book "Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax."

Prior to "Crime of the Century's" publication in 1993, most commentators on America's most famous crime had questioned Hauptmann's guilt, but had been unable to offer a cogent alternative hypothesis. Combining their respective expertise as a criminal defense lawyer and a seasoned police investigator, Ahlgren and Monier were the first to theorize that perhaps there had been no stranger abduction and that the "kidnapping" had been hastily concocted to mask a domestic tragedy. Controversial at the time of the book's original publication, this theory has now gained widespread acceptance as a plausible explanation of the Crime of the Century.

In his 2006 novel "Prologue," Ahlgren inverted the usual time-travel plot line. Instead of creating protagonists intent on preserving a recognized time line from attack by those seeking to change history, Ahlgren devised an alternative future, and then, set against the backdrop of the JFK assassination, presented his protagonists with the challenge of creating a better today.

His 2011 novel "The Medici Legacy" employed a plot convention rare in an American thriller when Ahlgren created a non-American chief protagonist, Deputy Inspector Antonio Ferrara of the Italian Polizia di Stato.

Ahlgren's Civil War novel "Fort Fisher: The Battle for the Gibraltar of the South" details the four-day pivotal battle for Fort Fisher, North Carolina in the conflict's waning days. Told from the point of view of enlisted personnel on both sides, as well as a local civilian, "Fort Fisher" was the first American novel to focus on the role of the Union Navy and the life of a Union sailor.

In an interview, when asked to name two fiction writers, one past, one present, who have influenced his writing, Ahlgren named Daphne duMaurier and Tim Green.

In a pretentious law school alumni questionnaire, when asked to list his greatest achievement since graduation, he reportedly scribbled, "never, ever having voted Republican."

Recreationally, Ahlgren has been a licensed private pilot, an avid sailor, and a not-so-avid skier. To the pilot in the cockpit of that American Airlines 727 trying to land at Albany directly behind him on a beautiful summer afternoon in 1976, he wants you to know that your eyes did not deceive you.

If you enjoyed his books you are invited to share your thoughts at any Internet review website, including Amazon's. If you did not, he wants you to know that the First Amendment, in certain circumstances, does protect prevarication and under the Fifth, you don't have to say anything.

Those seeking more information about Greg Ahlgren's writing are invited to visit his website at www.GregAhlgren.com. Greg Ahlgren can be contacted at Greg@GregAhlgren.com. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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	Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax by Gregory Ahlgren, Greg Ahlgren (Goodreads Author), Stephen Monier 3.81 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Prologue 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fort Fisher: The Battle for the Gibraltar of the South 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olustee: America's Unfinished Civil War Battle 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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