1981

I enjoyed researching the clothes we wore, historical events, movies, and the way Detectives solved cases. Can you imagine living with no cell phones or computers? Turning the knob on the television was the only way you could change the channel. There was no cable TV. Only seven channels were available to the public.

Now try solving a case with no applications that can identify a fingerprint and no DNA to check. My three Detectives worked together tirelessly to indict the Yanelli Crime Family. Their lives were compromised. A relationship suffered. And their future was placed on hold.

Although life was much more difficult in 1981, it was simple. And what's that saying, "Less is More"? More personal interaction, less global. Letters were written not emails. Phone calls were made not texts. Yes, it was simple then. But I guess you wouldn't miss what you never had.

Maybe some of you watched the Jetsons. Imagine talking into a watch? Well, yesterday's cartoon is today's reality.

When you read my novel, place yourself back in time to 1981!

The Origins of Faction

Faction is a combination of fiction and fact. Hence the title, Faction.

In 1981 both a drug dealer and prostitute were murdered in the East New York section of Brooklyn. People of no importance. Yet both law enforcement and a highly profiled crime family went to great lengths to cover up their deaths. So who were these people?

Over the past ten years I have accumulated a suitcase filled with reference books, FBI reports and Police records. There are several drafts of a screenplay and drafts of a novel all stuffed inside the mesh part of the suitcase. In July of 2009, I finally had a finished draft of Faction, the screenplay. I organized a reading of working actors who actually traveled to Connecticut, sat in a non-air conditioned living room and placed all their effort into reading my screenplay. Thank you Kelly Hadous, Peter D. Michael, Harry Chambarry, and Michael DeNegris. I also want to thank two friends who filled in for the camera directions and smaller parts: Gary Curto and Eileen Winters. After two hours of listening to the actors interpret my created words, I knew I had to change it one more time.

So here it is, Faction, the novel.

Writing the novel helps me fill in the holes found in the screenplay.

Please understand that in no way was this story meant to demean any law enforcement organization. However, at times, I could not change the fact into fiction.