The genesis of Modulator began with a documentary called Fear City. The premise was about how the FBI took down some of the heads of the five NYC mafia families by bugging their properties. The interesting thing was the audacity of the steps the agents took to install covert listening devices. They had to either break in or pretend to be repairmen to install the bugs. I became fascinated with the surveillance equipment from the 70s. The range was roughly 50 meters, so the rec

Out today: September 6th, 2022 In Digital and Print Modulator is a new giallo book. Taking inspiration from Il Giallo Mondari (Monadari Yellow), Italian crime-mystery novels with yellow covers, I have crafted a horror murder mystery with the hook of a left-behind 70s covert listening device. My inflection point was watching a documentary about Mafia survelleince by the FBI. I researched the spy equipment of the era and a story formed of a vacationing couple discovering a cove