Barbed Wire in Aphrodite’s Garden—A Novel

Cyprus, 1955-1957.  Love and courage collide with bigotry, decadence, and revolution in ethnically divided Cyprus as British control crumbles.  A schoolboy battles his mantle of cowardice, a tycoon’s son rebels against his heritage, and a young womanizer seeks redemption as a guerrilla-assassin.

Bangalore Affair—A Play

Out to punish a notorious professor for causing his mother’s death, a college student draws uncomfortably close to the professor’s wife and daughter.  Horrified by the painful family secrets he uncovers, the student struggles with undoing what he started.

Jahzara’s Triangle—A Play

A young Turkish scientist is suspected of blowing up his professor’s laboratory.  The event seems linked with a missing Chinese student, a Guantanamo detainee, and Barack Obama.  In unraveling the mystery, reporter Jahzara Jones finds her sanity, her career, and her life on the line.

Christmas Eve at the Julibee Motel—A Play

A stormy Christmas Eve finds a well-heeled young man on the run from some calamity.  He seeks shelter in a remote, bare-bones motel and discovers he has an indelible connection with the young woman at the check-in counter.

John Bandler, Artist

Last Updated: July 5, 2009