River of Desire: A Romantic Action Adventure/Thriller (26 page)

Dr. Von Schotten was involved in Nazi experimentation on concentration camp victims at Buchenwald during the Second World War. Shortly after the war, Dr. Von Schotten disappeared from Germany and later resurfaced in Houston, Texas where he worked at a hospital doing biological research for the CIA under a program known only as Project Paperclip. When this clandestine project was exposed by the press in the late 1950s and congressional hearing were held, Von Schotten abandoned the United States for Brazil. The CIA’s role in the experimentation is still unclear. Congress is considering an independent investigation into the matter.

OBITUARY

DR. HEINZ KRUGER

German Scientist and Researcher Dr. Heinz Kruger died in a fire at his Peruvian home on July 25,2002 at age 88. Dr. Kruger is best known for his research into smallpox and other communicable diseases and was one of the foremost scientists in the world working on developing vaccines for communicable diseases.

Dr. Kruger is survived by one granddaughter, Leah Roberts of Los Angeles. He will be fondly remembered as a learned and courageous man by his granddaughter, an Los Angeles Daily News correspondent who was visiting him in south America at the time of his death.

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About the Author

J. K. Winn has many stories to share.
After years of working in the “real” world, she decided to reinvent herself in mid-life and pursue her love of story.

Out of the Shadow
is her first novel published on Amazon, but she has one prior novel published in genre, and one play produced by the Actor’s Alliance Festival in San Diego. Her poetry has been anthologized in,
For the Love of Writing
, by the San Diego Writer’s Workshop in 2011. Her play,
Gotcha!
, was selected for a reading at the Village Arts Theater in Carlsbad, California, May 2012. Her second novel, a Native American romantic mystery,
The Spirit Keepers
, was published in February 2013. Look for her newest romantic action adventure,
River of Desire
, in January 2014.

J. K. presently lives by the beach in San Diego County, California. Visit her at her blog authorjswinn.wordpress.com or on facebook.com/authorjswinn