D. Wayne Bird

I retired in late 2015. Three days later, my wife and I were headed to Panamá City, Panamá where we intended to live as American ex-pats for the duration..... We'd visited Panamá a couple of times, driving across the country and back. We looked forward to a more active, healthier and less expensive lifestyle. That isn't the way things evolved and we returned to the States, as many American would-be ex-pats do, 13 months later.

While living in Panamá, an idea for a book series began forming in my head. I imagined an American, a former CIA officer, retiring while he was fairly young and very healthy, retiring to Panamá. The Max Springer series was born.

The first three books in the series are especially relevant today in light of the rise of nationalism around the globe and the white "supremacy" movement here at home. The entire series of six books is available from Amazon, as both e-books and large print paperbacks.

In 2021, I introduced a new series, the Stan Kolinski mysteries. Stan is a retired LAPD detective. Check out Murder on Moonstone, which takes place in Cambria, California, and Homicide in Huntington which refers to Huntington Beach, California. The third Stan Kolinski mystery is Finding the Invisible Man. There are more on the way. Stay tuned!