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Retired New York City teacher and community newspaper editor Howard Schwach is a published author with several young adult educational books and four adult novels under his belt. He spends much of his time when he is not writing facilitating groups of senior citizens who want to empty their bucket lists by fulfilling their dream of writing and publishing a novel. Schwach’s first novel centered on the tragic crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in his hometown of Rockaway (NY) on November 12, 2001. His second, the first in the celebrated Dave Rifkin Mystery series, The Masada Complex, centered on the age-old conflict between Jews and Palestinians in Israel and the kidnapping of a group of aging Jewish tourists from New York City visiting the Holy Land. That led to the second Rifkin mystery, Ain’t Love Enough, set in Music City, Nashville (TN). The Cahokia Conspiracy, the third novel in the Dave Rifkin series takes Dave and his wife, Linda, to the remains of an ancient Mississippian city on the Mississippi River, following the spread of an ancient virus that reveals a conspiracy to cover up the genesis of the virus by a greedy pharmaceutical executive.