Brought up in Seattle, Allen Wyler’s parents died early which left
him having to wholly support himself through college in a variety
of ways – including serving as a drive-in cook and playing drums as
a professional musician in various blues and jazz groups.
Medicine was his chosen discipline and he went on to have a
distinguished career in his speciality, neurosurgery, which he
determined on very early in his studies. Serving on the faculties
of the University of Washington and the University of Tennessee, he
earned an international reputation for pioneering surgical
techniques to record brain activity. In 1992, he was recruited by
the prestigious `Swedish Medical Centre’ to develop a Neuroscience
Institute. Ten years later, he left active practice to become
Medical Director for a start-up Med-Tech company, and now chairs
the Institutional Review Board of a major medical centre in the
Pacific Northwest.
In the early 1970’s Wyler developed a love of reading thrillers,
and later decided to leverage his medical knowledge by writing
himself. After the publication of his first two medical thrillers,
`Deadly Errors’, and `Dead Head’, in 2005 and 2007 respectively, he
retired from full time day to day medicine to devote more time to
his writing. He has also served as Vice President of the
`International Thriller Writers’ organization for several
years.
He and his wife, Lily, divide their time between Seattle and the
San Juan Islands, and he continues to develop new plots from
real-life situations met during his career. His writing has been
described as `right up there with the best’ and on another
occasion, developing a high-speed plot with a `startling but
all-too-plausible premise’.
DEADLY ODDS is original and a first rate thriller.
*Phillip Margolin*
With Allen Wyler, you get thrills and a dash of humor combined in a
high-tech plot written by a guy who knows what he’s talking about.
I love his books and DEADLY ODDS was the best one yet.
*Mike Lawson*
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