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 teenage schoolboy battles his mantle of cowardice, a tycoon’s illegitimate son rebels against his Greek 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 Bill Clinton.  In unraveling the mystery, reporter Jahzara Jones finds her sanity, her career, and her life on the line.

John Bandler, Artist

Last Updated: September 25, 2008