Patrick Fero

I bring to my writing a life-long fascination with government, management techniques and politics, especially the incompetence and petty corruption that predominates in local governments. I served in the United States Air Force before entering the inner sanctums of federal government service as a civilian after college. Over thirty years of swimming upstream against the bureaucracy led to a series of parables, The Parables of the Tail with No Teeth, illustrating good and bad management practices, that were published serially in a government periodical and subsequently made part of the management curriculum. After retiring in 1993, I wrote The Red-Tape Suicide, a satire on life within the offices of big government bureaucracy. I then embarked upon a new career in small government, becoming an award-winning municipal planner, and serving as a local elected official. I have seen governments from the highest to the lowest. I’ve woven that experience into the fabric underlying The Outsider, a roaring thriller set in small town America, and in the sequel, The Deadly Candidate. I look out at life with my wife of over 50 years on a wooded hilltop in south-central Pennsylvania.

http://patrickfero.blogspot.com