A Tour of Georgia
A Tour of Georgia is more than a travelogue it is a soulful journey into the heart of a country where East meets West, history embraces modernity, and landscapes inspire renewal.
After the loss of his wife, John finds healing and new meaning as he returns to Georgia with Anna, his trusted friend and guide. Together they explore the vibrant streets of Tbilisi, the vineyards of Kakheti, the ancient towers of Svaneti, the coastal charm of Batumi, and the mystical Colchic Rainforest. Along the way, they connect with artisans, villagers, and fellow travelers whose stories enrich their own.
Blending memoir, cultural exploration, and personal growth, this book invites readers to:
- Discover hidden gems in Georgia’s breathtaking landscapes and UNESCO World Heritage sites
- Experience traditional Georgian wine, cuisine, and hospitality
- Reflect on themes of loss, friendship, belonging, and transformation
- Be inspired by the balance of tradition and progress in one of the world’s oldest civilizations
An American In Tbilisi (E-Book)
An American in Tbilisi is a moving memoir that captures one man’s journey of healing, reinvention, and belonging in a foreign land. After the loss of his wife, John Matthews leaves behind his familiar life in New Jersey and seeks solace in the enchanting city of Tbilisi, Georgia. What begins as an escape soon becomes a profound transformation as he discovers the warmth of Georgian culture, the resilience of its people, and the unexpected friendship of Anna—his guide, confidante, and anchor through grief.
From the cobblestone streets of Old Tbilisi to the tranquil trails of Vake Park, from the sulfur baths of Abanotubani to the breathtaking mountains of Kazbegi, John’s journey is both a travel memoir and a story of the human spirit’s ability to heal. With humor, honesty, and deep reflection, he learns that home is not just a place it’s where we allow ourselves to grow, connect, and begin again.
A heartfelt blend of memoir, travel writing, and cultural exploration, this book invites readers to embrace the unknown and find meaning in life’s second chances.
Reimagining Horizons (E-Book)
Reimagining Horizons is a deeply moving memoir that weaves together grief, resilience, and the rediscovery of purpose after unimaginable loss. When Harper Law loses Celia, his wife of 57 years, he finds himself navigating an emotional wilderness. But through caregiving, reflection, and an unexpected bond with Anna, a caregiver from Eastern Europe, he slowly begins to reimagine life beyond sorrow.
From the early days on Wall Street and family life in New York, to personal reflections shaped by love, caregiving, politics, and culture, Reimagining Horizons explores what it means to age with intention, find healing in unexpected places, and embrace the future as a digital nomad.
Set against the backdrop of breathtaking Georgia (the country), this memoir is also a love letter to cultural heritage, the power of storytelling, and human connection. For readers seeking a memoir about grief and healing, the beauty of caregiving, and the possibility of a full life after loss, this story offers gentle wisdom, reflection, and hope.
If you’ve ever wondered whether life can begin again after heartbreak this book will answer with a quiet, resounding yes.
The Antarctic Equation (E-Book)
A collapsing ice shelf. A failing treaty. A global power struggle hidden beneath the ice.
The Antarctic Equation delivers a tense, deeply realistic climate fiction thriller where geopolitics, environmental science, and human survival collide at the edge of the world.
When investigator Hans Adler arrives at McMurdo Station, he discovers that Antarctica—once protected by international cooperation is becoming the world’s most coveted battleground. As ice sheets crumble and sea levels surge, nations secretly race to claim the continent’s freshwater reserves, mineral-rich bedrock, and strategic dominance, all under the disguise of scientific research.
Partnering with climate scientist Dr. Elena Volkov, Hans uncovers a hidden pattern: nations are reinterpreting the Treaty, exploiting loopholes, and conducting covert resource operations. This emerging model—the Antarctic Equation—reveals the terrifying truth:
cooperation is collapsing, defection is profitable, and the world is running out of time.
The Arctic Protocol (E-Book)
THE ARCTIC PROTOCOL is a high-stakes Geo-political thriller set in the rapidly melting Arctic, where climate change, military power, and indigenous survival collide. When CIA investigator Hans Adler is sent to Alaska to document escalating Arctic resource conflicts, he arrives to find far more than shifting ice and disappearing fish populations.
Foreign fishing fleets, covert military operations, and disputed territorial waters are pushing the world toward confrontation and indigenous communities toward cultural collapse.
Guided by marine biologist Sarah Kaleak and Iñupiaq expert Tommy Anaktuvuk, Hans uncovers a network of illegal Arctic fishing, secret Northern Fleet operations, and a dangerous trilateral race between Russia, China, and the United States. As climate-driven migration, melting ice, and disappearing ecosystems destabilize long-standing treaties, global powers prepare to seize the Arctic’s last untapped resources.
But the people who’ve lived there for 10,000 years are caught in the crossfire.
Racing from Utqiaġvik to the central Arctic donut hole, Hans must expose the truth before a single aggressive maneuver turns a resource dispute into an international crisis.
The Colorado Cipher (E-Book)
In The Colorado Cipher, former intelligence investigator Hans Adler is assigned to a crisis unfolding not in a foreign conflict zone, but in his own country. The Colorado River lifeline of 40 million people, seven states, tribal nations, and agricultural empires is collapsing under a century of over-allocation, political paralysis, and climate-driven decline. As reservoirs plunge toward dead pool, Hans documents a national failure unfolding in slow motion, exposing how America’s most essential water system became a symbol of institutional breakdown.
From Lake Mead’s alarming descent to the legal battles of tribal water rights, from the agricultural entitlement wars of the Imperial Valley to the desperation of Las Vegas, Phoenix, and the Lower Basin, Hans follows a trail of environmental truth no one in power wants exposed. Every chapter reveals a deeper layer of corruption, denial, and political gridlock what he calls the Colorado Cipher, a century-old arithmetic mistake that now threatens millions.
But the river is not the only thing unraveling. As Hans navigates engineers, policymakers, tribal advocates, environmental activists, and state negotiators, he confronts the moral question he has avoided for years: Can documenting the truth change anything before the system collapses? Or is he simply recording America’s most predictable disaster?
The Distance Between Us
What happened to real human connection?
In The Distance Between Us: How We Lost the Art of Human Connection, an eighty-year-old author reflects on a lifetime of relationships, marriage, friendship, grief, and rebuilding, to explore a question that defines our time: why are we more connected than ever, yet feel more alone than ever before?
Blending personal storytelling with cultural reflection, this powerful book examines the growing loneliness epidemic, the hidden costs of social media and relationships, and the quiet erosion of trust that once held communities together. From childhood friendships in post-war Berlin to a lifelong marriage that lasted fifty-seven years, the author shows what authentic human connection once looked like, and why it is disappearing.
At the heart of this modern society and loneliness exploration is a simple but urgent argument: technology promised connection, but often delivered distance. Conversations have been replaced by notifications. Presence has been replaced by convenience. And the meaning of friendship has been quietly redefined.
The Hat In The Hudson
In the shadowy world of secondary ticket markets, power isn’t just measured in money, it’s measured in access.
The Hat in the Hudson is a gripping dark comedy crime thriller that unravels the hidden economy behind sold-out events, where elite brokers, corporate clients, and organized networks quietly control who gets in, and who doesn’t.
When a powerful ticket broker’s rival is found brutally murdered, his body dropped from a high-rise and a mysterious hat recovered from the Hudson River, a complex web of deception begins to unfold. As investigators dig deeper, they uncover a world where ticket scalping, corporate corruption, and organized crime intersect with unsettling precision.
At the center of it all is Joe, a master operator who understands that in a city like New York, invisibility is the ultimate advantage. While authorities chase the wrong clues, Joe navigates a system built on silence, influence, and calculated misdirection.
The Ice Beneath
The Ice Beneath is Book Six (6 of 6) in the acclaimed Hans Adler Water Series, a narrative nonfiction investigation into how water, climate change, and global power politics are reshaping the international order.
In January 2026, Greenland, long overlooked by the world, suddenly emerged as the center of an international geopolitical crisis. As Arctic ice melts, it exposes not only ancient glaciers but also strategic shipping routes, rare earth minerals, and a new arena of great power competition. The Greenland crisis reveals how climate change geopolitics and Arctic security have become inseparable from modern global strategy.
Blending investigative journalism with historical and geopolitical analysis, The Ice Beneath examines Greenland’s colonial history, Cold War military infrastructure buried beneath the ice, and the modern scramble for Arctic resources. Through on-the-ground reporting from Nuuk, Copenhagen, and Ilulissat, the book foregrounds the voices of Greenlanders whose homeland has become a strategic focal point for global powers.
As part of the Hans Adler Water Series, this volume continues the series’ central themes of water geopolitics, climate-driven conflict, and the growing strain on the rules-based international order. It is essential reading for those seeking to understand Arctic geopolitics, great power rivalry, and the global consequences of a rapidly warming world.
This book is part of the Hans Adler Water Series and is listed as Book 6 of 6.
The Mekong Gambit (E-Book)
“The Mekong Gambit” is a tense and deeply immersive geopolitical espionage thriller that follows investigator Hans Adler into the dangerous heart of Southeast Asia, where international spy networks, hidden agendas, and water politics collide with devastating consequences.
Still haunted by the events of Tehran, Hans and Nino are drawn into a new mission when evidence emerges of deliberate water manipulation by Chinese mega-dams along the Mekong. From Chiang Mai intelligence circles to Laotian border facilities, Cambodian fishing villages, and Vietnamese delta research stations, they uncover a chilling truth: water has become a weapon, and someone is controlling the flow.
As Hans navigates political corruption, activist networks, and powerful security agencies, he becomes trapped between nuclear-level conspiracy, shifting alliances, and global power struggles that threaten millions of lives downstream. Every witness he interviews, every network he touches, and every government he crosses generates new enemies, and new moral questions about the cost of truth.
The Tbilisi Cipher (E-Book)
“The Tbilisi Cipher” is a gripping geopolitical espionage thriller that follows Hans Adler — a grieving academic turned reluctant intelligence operative, as he uncovers a dangerous nexus between water politics, nuclear ambitions, and global power struggles stretching from Georgia to Iran.
Still haunted by the death of his wife and daughter, Hans accepts a seemingly harmless research assignment, only to discover he has been pulled into a world of double-crosses, covert surveillance, and international intelligence games. As Georgian, Russian, American, Israeli, and Iranian agencies manipulate the flow of information like the rivers they fight to control, Hans becomes the unwitting keeper of a secret capable of shifting global influence.
Caught between moral ambiguity and political corruption, Hans races to expose the truth behind water manipulation networks, hidden nuclear infrastructure, and the activists risking their lives to reveal it. But every step deeper into the spy thriller web reveals a chilling reality: in international espionage, there are no heroes — only survivors.
The Unbreakable Thread
The Unbreakable Thread is a powerful, reflective, and deeply human exploration of true friendship—the rare bond that transcends time, distance, culture, and circumstance. Blending philosophy, storytelling, and emotional insight, this book reveals how authentic friendship becomes the quiet architecture of the human heart—a sanctuary built on trust, truth, vulnerability, and recognition.
Through real experiences and thoughtful observations, the author unveils how friendship evolves:
- from the first spark of recognition,
- to the tests of honesty and absence,
- to the profound ties that cross generations, genders, ideologies, and cultures,
- to the friendships we carry within us long after people fade or depart.
