Karl Jacobs

Karl Jacobs knows where the bodies are buried in corporate America. He's worked in the corporate headquarters of major corporations on Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, in Newark, N.J., and in Wilmington, Delaware.

He was vice president-executive communications and chief speechwriter for two Chairmen-CEOs at Prudential Insurance and special assistant to the Vice Chairman of DuPont.

Before entering the business world, he was a writer and reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, covering major news events throughout the country, and became assistant city editor. He later served as press secretary for a United States Senator in Washington.

Both of his novels grew out of this mix of experiences. His latest, THE HONORABLE THING, is the funny, deeply moving story of Katie and Jack, both 30-something and married, when they are thrown together in a puritanical giant corporation and break all the rules by falling in love. His first, an Amazon bestselling thriller, was THE PRESIDENT'S KILLERS, inspired by the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King. His next novel, about the U.S. Senate, will be released soon.

Born and reared in Superior, Wisconsin, Karl is a journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and later returned there to do graduate work in sociology as a Sage Fellow. He and his wife Kay met in high school band when he winked at her on a quarter bet with a fellow trumpet-player. He was 16 and she was 14. He won both the quarter and, eventually, Kay. They have three adult children and now live in Arizona.