Security guard at the BMA by day; writer by night. My debut novel A Postcard from Cottonwood was inspired by true events in 1995, when I was held up at gunpoint on Calvert and 25 1/2 street. 

The premise is:

Neil Enright is an alcoholic polyglot with a photographic memory who has spent the better part of his life seducing women from one end of the globe to the other. During a respite from his travels, Neil returns to his hometown of Baltimore where he is held up at gunpoint… more