Alan Geik

In 2015 I published "Glenfiddich Inn," a WWI era novel set in Boston, New York, and Scotland,

One theme of the novel is the early days of radio experimentation. Wireless Morse code had been achieved only a few years earlier. It's existence allowed the stricken Titanic in 1912 to send for help—otherwise those many survivors, and their stories, would have been lost to history.

The wireless transmission of the human voice—even music—became the next communications frontier. They called it "radio."

I received an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics & Political Science.

I produced two CDs for my music production company Dreamer Music—Caravana Cubana "Late Night Sessions" and "del alma." "Late Night Sessions" received two Grammy nominations.

I just finished my non fiction manuscript "Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz—the Jewish Mob, a family affair. " I hope to have it published in September, 2022.

Uncle Charlie, a Murder Inc. assassin killed Dutch Schultz in a Newark N.J. tavern in October 1935. Dutch Schultz was a feared New York City crime boss of that era. It is one of the best-known gangland murders of the 20th Century. Six years later Uncle Charlie received a life sentence for the murder.

I never imagined that after Uncle Charlie Workman was released, having served twenty-three years for the crime, I, along with my attorney sister and our late NYPD detective brother, would be drawn into his world of semi-retired gangsters who were treated with a deference that intrigued me. They casually recounted events that have been portrayed in films, books and sensational newspaper headlines.

I still have to remind myself that the often amusing observations and anecdotes in this manuscript are related by family members who, decades earlier, created what came to be known as “organized crime”—America’s most lucrative, and deadly enterprise.

I can't think of many other organized crime books that have similar first hand observations by the perpetrators.