David M. Carlberg

David Carlberg, PhD, was born in Los Angeles and is now living in Santa Barbara, California. A retired microbiologist, David has held positions as a chemist and executive for major pharmaceutical companies, an aerospace research scientist in astrobiology and biological warfare detection, as a consultant in the medical device, pharmaceutical, TV and motion picture industries, and as a professor of microbiology at California State University, Long Beach. David is author of eight fiction and non-fiction books. His fictional protagonists are usually scientists working undercover for the FBI or CIA. One of his latest books is "Ebola Pursuit". Taking place in Africa, it is a thrilling story of efforts to prevent North Korean agents from obtaining highly virulent Ebola viruses for use in terrorist attacks. Another popular choice is an eclectic selection of short stories covering a world-wide array of locations and themes including a tale of an android that is a star college quarterback, an encounter between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso where neither recognizes the other, the life of history's most successful art forger, and others. David’s latest book, China Riddle, follows an undercover protagonist in an investigation of a suspected industrial spy that leads our protagonist to a stay in a Chinese prison and later into the hands of a kidnapper’s sadistic minion. An unexpected twist resolves the exciting tale.