The Truth about Lying

The continuing saga of John Baldino, M.D., Ph.D., and now an agent working to the bottom of a suspicious epidemic of brain tumors on an isolated Apache Indian Reserve. According to the medical experts, the debilitating new disease is due to the ingestion of an unknown type of peyote, used by members of a highly secretive cult, which has resurfaced after a century along with its highly clandestine traditional religion. Baldino's mind is visited by the ghost of a slain Apache girl, bringing both of them into the middle of an internationally orchestrated plot to rule the world in ways even he never thought possible.

About the Author :
Mike Politis was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1951 and grew up in the New York Metropolitan area. He obtained a Ph.D. in medical physiology from New Jersey Medical School, a D.V.M. from the Western College of Veterinary Medicine and has published over 50 original ground-breaking research papers in nerve trauma repair, neurotoxicology, acupuncture and cell biology. He has held teaching and research positions at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in NY, University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, and UBC in Vancouver. His writing career started in the late 80s, with his first one hour TV CTV drama, "A Viking's Carol," followed by a feature length CTV movie, "Kefi's Garage," staring Gordon Tootoosis ("Legends of the Fall," "North of 60"). His most recent television credits include director and co-writer of "The Kilburns," a one-hour CBC dramatic series pilot featuring Donnelly Rhodes ("DaVinci's Inquest," "Danger Bay") and Linda Darlow ("Newhart," "The Commish," "The Amy Fischer Story"). He recently wrote and directed a one hour TV drama/comedy adopted from his own novel, "Of Lions and Lambs," with plans to shoot a veterinary TV drama for PBS and CBC in Feb, 2002. He has written over 70 scripts for the small and/or big screen, many of which are based on his own novels. He is co-writer of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Improving Your IQ," a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural and spice fully-written manual for body, mind and spirit development (McMillian/Apple Books). He has 13 novels to his credit, including "Of Lions and Lambs" (1998, man vs. demon set against the backdrop of the stand-up comedy world), "The Telenkovian Experiment" (1995, biomedical/political thriller set in 1930 Ukraine and contemporary Russia), "Revolutionary Blues" (1997, Faustian Western set against backdrop of the Yaqui Indian revolt in 1926 Mexico) and "Professor Jack" (1998, political fiction Quixotic tale centering around the JFK assassination). His "Heart of the Healer" series (1998-2000), written in collaboration with Daydream Productions/PCCN in Hot Springs, Arkansas, focuses on an intelligent, empathetic and poetic physician-scientist who can cross the life-death line, a 'talent' which he uses in the service of highly unofficial underground anti-terrorist organizations. "All About Him by Her" is a dramatic-satirical manual of the male-female question as told by prototypical humans to ETs visiting our humble, and colorful, planet. "Raising Caesar" (2001) focuses on an attempt of a disillusioned Nazi scientist to infiltrate the Reich's film industry and use it against Hitler. "Promethian Fire" (1997) is an adventure-romance about an American expatriate Hippie-Classical Music conductor/composer and his ex-Hippie, ex-wife caught up in the 1967 brutal Military Junta that took over Greece in the dead of night, un-noticed and un-challenged by the West. "Babylonian Retribution" (1998) is an archeological thriller focusing around an ancient, and brutally-exterminated, community of Ultra-Enlightened Scholar-Monks re-awakened by a NY Times journalist on his Arabian honeymoon, led by a ghost that reminds him of a past lifetime he never knew he had. Dr. Politis currently lives in Kamloops, BC, splitting his time between doing veterinary relief work in NY and tending to his literary and movie-making life in the West. He has granted himself the HBARP degree, human being, aspiring Renaissance person.