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Part of the hero's mission involves key
"I believe one of the greatest gifts
surviving patients of Dr. Josef Mengele,
from God is imagination," says
Engelbert, who lives in Ann Arbor and whose horrific and deadly experiments
take on fictional elements for this work.
is active with the Jewish community
"I thought it would be interesting to
center there. "I used my imagination
set the book in the time when Israel and
to develop this plot after reading a lot
Egypt came to an agreement on peace,"
of news stories about fraud."
says Altman, 75. "I also thought it
Although Engelbert remains fasci-
would be interesting to
nated by legal issues, he decided
explore the event by .
against practicing law because he
developing the characters
didn't like the day-to-day encoun-
of five prominent
ters the profession introduced.
American Jews."
Instead, he is building a career
Altman, who studied
around his training at the
journalism
at Wayne
University of Michigan Business
State University and also
School, where he earned his bache-
worked for the Detroit
lor's degree.
bureau of Time maga-
Engelbert, active with the Wayne
zine, says he just let his
State University Law Alumni
La fly Altman
imagination take over to
Association, will be honored for the
complete the thriller. .
.
book when the organization holds
Distant relatives who had experienced
its annual ball March 15 at the
the Holocaust directly were among the
Detroit Athletic Club. A book signing
inspirations for this project.
at the WSU Law School also is being
Married and a father and grandfather,
planned.
Altman also has been working on plays,
"I had never written anything for
an interest he shares with his wife,
pleasure before," says Engelbert, a
Mary. The two, members of Michigan
director of the Benard L. Maas
Playwrights, work separately on scripts
Foundation.
and critique each other's projects.
"I'm glad that I could bring my
Readings of Altman's plays have
experiences from law school into my
been presented by the Village Players
writing, and I like that it turned out
and at the Southfield Public Library
to be a believable story."
and Southfield Centre for the Arts.
"I've always enjoyed reading and
Larry Altman
writing," says Altman, who found a
Spy thrillers always have been favorites publisher rather quickly. 'Among arti-
cles I've written for newspapers and
on Larry Altman's reading list, so he
national magazines have been 10 on
decided to write one of his own.
historical figures or events, and I hope
He found time after retiring as a
to put them together into a book." ❑
reporter/copy editor from the Detroit
News in 1991.
The Chocolate Formula (Adventure
&book signing/reading with Dr.
Book Publishers; $19.99), which can
Gene Rontal is scheduled for
be ordered on the Web by going to
7:30
p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, at
vvww.puzzlesbyshar.com , covers the
Barnes
& Noble, 6800 Orchard
secret work of Yaacov Ben-Azor, a
Lake
Road,
West Bloomfield.
member of a private spy organization
(248)
626-6804.
moving against a neo-Nazi determined
to launch a Fourth Reich.

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