birth_date: 0001-09-03 00:00:00
avg_rating: 4.27
name: N. Lombardi Jr.
about: N. Lombardi Jr, the N for Nicholas, has spent over half his life in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, working as a groundwater geologist. Nick can speak five languages: Swahili, Thai, Lao, Chinese, and Khmer (Cambodian).In 1997, while visiting Lao People's Democratic Republic, he witnessed the remnants of a secret war that had been waged for nine years, among which were children wounded from leftover cluster bombs. Driven by what he saw, he worked on The Plain of Jars for the next eight years. Nick maintains a website with content that spans most aspects of the novel: The Secret War, Laotian culture, Buddhism etc. http://plainofjars.netHis second novel, Journey Towards a Falling Sun, is set in the wild frontier of northern Kenya.His latest N. Lombardi Jr, the N for Nicholas, has spent over half his life in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, working as a groundwater geologist. Nick can speak five languages: Swahili, Thai, Lao, Chinese, and Khmer (Cambodian).In 1997, while visiting Lao People's Democratic Republic, he witnessed the remnants of a secret war that had been waged for nine years, among which were children wounded from leftover cluster bombs. Driven by what he saw, he worked on The Plain of Jars for the next eight years. Nick maintains a website with content that spans most aspects of the novel: The Secret War, Laotian culture, Buddhism etc. http://plainofjars.netHis second novel, Journey Towards a Falling Sun, is set in the wild frontier of northern Kenya.His latest novel, Justice Gone was inspired by the fatal beating of a homeless man by police.Nick now lives in Phnom Penh, CambodiaSome personal comments taken from his user's profile:Working as an engineering geologist has taken me to other countries as well, including the Gulf States in the Middle East, North Africa, and two years in China. My cross-cultural experiences allow me to adopt a world view, and form a major component of my writing, with the aim of spreading cultural knowledge to the reading public in an entertaining way. I also enjoy writing emotionally charged stories, and I often laugh and cry while writing them,lost inside the fictional world I create. Politically, I am ardently against any war,regardless of the rhetoric used to justify it. Until we abandon war, the human race is fated to remain in a savage conditionI enjoy physical exercise, watching a well made film (I love Frank Capra), and of course reading a good book. I like to be in natural settings rather than an urban environment. I am also morbidly interested in following the dark side of covert machinations by the state, and geopolitics, the root cause of war. ...more