Warren Shulman
After graduating from the University of Georgia Law school with honors, Warren joined the Central Intelligence Agency where he became a distinguished Operations Officer, receiving a Presidential commendation for work against the North Vietnamese target. He served three years in Hong Kong, running clandestine operations into China and North Viet Nam. His experience there provided the kindling for The Lushan Addiction. Lushan is a famous resort where in 1970, the Chinese Politburo held a secret plenum to decide future policy toward the United States. Mao supported rapprochement, but he was vehemently opposed by his second in command, Lin Biao, the powerful head of the Peoples Liberation Army and Mao's heir apparent and oldest comrade from the days of the Long March. Bitterly disappointed in the outcome of the Plenum, Lin sought, within weeks, to overthrow Mao. When his coup failed, he tried to flee in his private airplane with all his family to the Soviet Union. His plane inexplicably crashed or was shot out of the sky over Mongolia, and all aboard perished. Soon thereafter, Warren obtained this historic intelligence information from a source deeply embedded in Beijing's Foreign Diplomatic Corps.
Warren resigned from the Agency in 1972 and joined his father's law firm in Atlanta. He went on to become a preeminent trial attorney and co-authored the seminal authority on Georgia Civil Procedure, which, being updated after several editions by other authors, is, to this day, widely relied upon by lawyers all over Georgia. Later in his career, Warren dipped his toe in the political arena, running for Mayor of Atlanta. Ultimately, he was opposed by former Congressman and Carter era United Nations Ambassador, Andrew Young. Although Warren ran a spirited race and garnered city wide support, he could not overcome the immensely popular Ambassador Young.
Just as he had begun researching a planned prequel to The Lushan Addiction, Warren, who was an avid cyclist, was involved in a cycling accident which left him partially paralyzed. With what appeared as a mountain of rehabilitation in front of him, Warren retired from his law practice to focus on the challenge of learning to cope with if not overcome his quadriplegia.
Today, Warren spends his time reading, painting, walking his beloved Toy Poodle puppies and writing his memoirs.
