Daniel J. Verin

My wife Patti and I enjoy writing novels that blend romance and adventure with war and terrorism history-based events. Our purpose is to promote public awareness about Terrorism and the PTSD effects on its victims.

"The Torch" (2018)- is a WW2 story that follows the actions of Henry Towers, a young West Point graduate turned spy, during the 1943 US invasion of France-colonized Algeria. President Roosevelt’s promoted the freedom of natives around the world. General de Gaulle, FDR's archenemy ordered the ignominious 1945 Setif massacre of 45,000 native Algerians. Henry Towers is involved in all the actions leading to that massacre, now recognized as a crime against humanity.

"Rosa, a Survivor" (2023) was written during the dreary COVID-19 months. Based on a historical event, the novel's aim is to entertain readers while raising their awareness about Terrorism and its PTSD victims. Rosa is a professor at Algiers University. She is of Berber origin. She is traumatized first by the 1990-2001 Black Decade Jihadi civil war, and later during the 2013 terrorist attack of a natural gas plant in the Sahara Desert. Miraculously saved by the US Embassy and psychological treatment at San Diego Navy Hospital, she recovers in Baha California where she finds peace and love.

I was born and grew up as a member of the colonizing Pieds Noirs minority in French Algeria.

There, I saw firsthand the military and political conflicts that arose during World War 2. Later I live through the seven-year Algerian War, its dramatic worldwide consequences, and the lasting scars it left in millions of people, including my relatives.

In my twenties I joined the Algerian ALN against the French occupation, before migrating to the US for a career in computer technology.

After working in downtown Manhattan during the 9/11/2001 terror attack of the New York World Trade Center; I decided to take university courses to study the roots of terrorism and ways to eradicate it.

Now retired, I decided to blog and write novels to entertain while raising the public's awareness on the effects of terrorism, including PTSD.

Patti, an Urbana, Ohio native, was a Physical Therapist. Growing up, she idolized FDR and developed a profound admiration of Eleanor Roosevelt’s active passion for world peace, justice and the advancement of women’s rights. During the 1980s, she was involved in peace movements, including the 1986 Peace March on Washington.