I was born in Brooklyn, New York. Served as a federal environmental prosecutor in New York for 13 years. In 1998, unrelated to my work, I was kidnapped off the street by a gang of robbers who held me, blindfolded in an apartment in Brooklyn, for 25 hours. I survived. The story was "too wild to be fiction" as Joseph Wambaugh says, so feeling the need to tell it, I took several writing classes and transformed myself into an author. I also work as a courtroom and transactions lawyer, on commercial and environmental cases across the United States. Recently I have been working on sustainability, helping green businesses profit from the new environmental ethos that is taking hold in corporate America.