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ROBERT C. NIENKEMPER
Robert C. Nienkemper in real life is a senior analyst with the U.S. Department of Defense, living in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. He's married with a loving family. When not writing, he pilots small aircraft, paints oil and watercolor landscapes, finger picks on his Martin D-19 guitar, and sails on the Chesapeake Bay out of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. When he's not tinkering with a classic car, he might be found duffing around with golf. In up coming novels, the reader will find Prich Hale cleverly in pursuit of villains in FATAL GENES and FATAL EQUITY.
FATAL GAMES
Our nation's capitol reeks with the kingpins of politics and greasers of the corrupt system, but they could all take lessons from the new clients that Prich is asked to help. Rogers & Emory Development Company is a family-run computer game software enterprise which plays a real life game of financial intrigue wrapped within the enigma of murder and incest. Prich walks a tightrope as his father wishes to drop the inquiry while others are killing for fun and profit. Prich does a juggling act with his father, the dysfunctional family clients, a cop who is a good friend, and his sometime girl friend who is always justifiably suspicious and consistently jealous. Prichard Hale, a Washington, DC Metro "wanna-be" attorney, works for his father's prestigious law firm, Hale & Son. His primary purpose in life is to cut off any official investigation before even a whisper of scandal. He needs to keep those wagging tongues in their places. One minute someone might be at the top of everyone's invitation list, and the next, the source of everyone's chuckles. Political careers rise and fall on the playing field within the Beltway. When whispers turn to murder, Prich Hale finds himself playing FATAL GAMES. FATAL GAMES has been nominated as BEST FICTION of 1998 by The Library of Virginia. From hundreds of entries by Virginia authors, FATAL GAMES is one of the final four nominees. Awards will be presented by The Library of Virginia on September 18, 1999, 6:00 P.M. at a ceremony in Richmond. This prestigious recognition of Nienkemper's main character, Prichard Hale, comes in time to herald his newest adventure in FATAL GENES which will be released by Briarwood Publications, Incorporated in March, 1999. "Prichard Hale is quite an original sleuth who undergoes a transformation when there is an important job to do...Readers will enjoy the quirky internal dialogue and presentation of this unlikely hero as he narrates this tale with rich descriptive, often paradoxical passages...With his meticulous probing of the situation and persistence in what turns out to be more than one murder, Prich solves the case in a most surprising way." The Gothic Journal	NEWSFLASH: FATAL GAMES nominated as BEST FICTION of 1998 by The Library of Virginia