About the author
jMike Olson is a retired army officer.
Lieutenant Colonel Olson was assigned to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad to work as the senior advisor to the director general of engineering of the Iraqi Ministry of Health. While there, he worked with a staff of 40 Iraqi architects, engineers and health care providers, “Dr. Sahar” being one of them. Their main task was to establish the reconstruction program for the Iraqi healthcare system.
Being a part of the effort the author saw how the reconstruction effort was shaped, executed and portrayed. But most importantly, he saw how the impact of the war on the Iraqi people was usually glossed over and under-emphasized.
He learned that history tends to be contaminated by heavy doses of fiction. By reading other accounts and writing his own, he also learned that fiction is often heavily influenced by versions of actual events.
This, his first novel, like the history books, is both fact and fiction.
