Who Is Gordon Tilson? Gordon Tilson is an important character in the novel The Missing American, which will be released on January 14, 2020. The Missing American (Coming Jan 14, 2020) Gordon Tilson grew up in Washington, DC. In his early 20s he joined the Peace Corps, a government program established through an executive order issued by issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961. Its official mission is to provide social and economic development abroad through techn

Letter from Ghana I’ve been in Ghana now for just under a month combining books/family/leisure, although I have to say I’ve had little of the latter. A plan to travel to a well-known monkey sanctuary in the Volta Region this weekend got nixed by some business that came up. Some of the locales and experienced echo events in my upcoming novel THE MISSING AMERICAN (TMA) for example, the first-time arrival of one of the main characters into the new Terminal 3 at the Kotoka Intern

In my novel writing, my aim is not only to entertain but also to render as authentic an experience as possible to the reader, especially since I set my detective stories in a part of the world most readers will never venture: Ghana, West Africa. Whether that location is considered “exotic” or just foreign, I try to write about it as it really is. The characters and murders are made up, of course, but even there, some content is based on real events and people. Many of the jaw