THE PUPPETEER

About the Book

Michael Miller is a computer science professor and a loving father whose life has taken a few bad turns. His wife of ten years, a beautiful, hard-driving corporate executive, has divorced him, and Michael is left to raise their seven year-old son—a quirky, yet lovable little boy who has a near-obsession with spiders. As Michael struggles with his life, Salim Haddad glides to the zenith of his career. Haddad is “America's Newsman” —a media icon, he represents everything that his television viewers admire—honesty, virtue, and professionalism. But Salim Haddad has dark secrets, and it is those secrets that lead to a horrifying incident the puts the professor and the media star on a collision path.

About the Author

Roger Pressman is an internationally recognized consultant and author in software engineering. The author of seven textbooks, including the world’s most widely used book on the subject, he has over 1.5 million books in print. Roger lives in south Florida with his wife Barbara and has two sons who run media related companies. In addition to real work, he is an accomplished tennis player and an ever-hopeful single-digit golfer. The Puppeteer is his second foray into fiction. His first novel, The Aymara Bridge, is a techno-thriller set in Peru and the United States.