Ahmet and Crime

Here is a photo of Ahmet and me during our last night in Shanghai. Ahmet was a particularly special colleague of mine from my first global team because our friendship blossomed from various conversations about life, love, and business. His Turkish background intrigued me, and his serious, reserved demeanor was often peppered by my terrible singing of They Might Be Giants' "Instanbul", cartwheels, and all sorts of debauchery in Europe. We shared a fantastic dinner in Rotterdam with enough food to serve the Romanian army, and I will always treasure our introspective conversations from the past two years.

On another note, Mike sat next to Jeffery Deaver on his flight back home from Denver on Saturday. Those two hit it off famously, and Jeffery invited the two of us to his book signing of "The Broken Window" on Monday evening in Raleigh. For those of you who don't follow psychological/crime thriller novels, Jeffery was the one who wrote "The Bone Collector", which was produced into a movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie back in 1999. I'm looking forward to meeting the man behind the Lincoln Rhyme series.