{"id":56,"date":"2013-09-10T18:51:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2019-05-09T21:41:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:41:15","slug":"about-the-author-russell-atkinson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/about-the-author-russell-atkinson\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author: Russell Atkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a retired FBI agent and lawyer. Now I write &#8211; novels mostly, but I&#8217;ve written a lot of non-fiction, too, including this blog.\u00a0 I live in Silicon Valley and that&#8217;s where the settings of my novels are. They say to write about what you know, so I have. My mysteries are fiction, but just barely. Several are inspired by real cases I worked in the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>I have eclectic interests: writing, cryptography, guitar, geocaching, running, electric vehicles, puzzles, law. I&#8217;ve written about all of them. 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