Author Also Explains the Eerie Similarity Between the Plot
of The Masada Complex and the October 7 Massacre in Israel
The G-Man Interviews: Howard Schwach
(with Host & Executive Producer Gary Glennell Toms)
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Welcome.
Retired New York City teacher and community newspaper editor Howard Schwach is now a popular author who has published several young-adult educational books and four novels.
When he isn’t writing, he spends much of his time working with groups of senior citizens who want to fulfill their dream of writing and publishing a novel.
Schwach’s first novel, Flight 587 Heavy, centered on the tragic crash of American Airlines Flight 587, which occurred in his hometown of Rockaway (NY) on November 12, 2001. His second, the first in the celebrated Dave Rifkin mystery series, The Masada Complex, centered on the age-old conflict between Jews and Palestinians in Israel and the kidnapping of a group of aging Jewish tourists from New York City while visiting the Holy Land. That led to the second Rifkin mystery, Ain’t Love Enough, set in Music City in Nashville (TN). The Cahokia Conspiracy, the third novel in the series, takes Rifkin and his wife Linda to the remains of an ancient city on the Mississippi River, following the spread of an ancient virus that reveals a conspiracy to cover up the genesis of the virus by a greedy pharmaceutical executive.
The author joins me to discuss his latest work, To Die In Jerusalem, which delves into the heart of the conflict between American diaspora Jews and the right-wing government of Israel.
The Interview was conducted on November 29.
Photo source: Howard Schwach