Martin Walker is Senior Director of the Global Business Policy Council, a private think-tank for CEOs of major corporations, based in Washington DC.
After three years as the Editor of United Press International, the global news agency, he is now Editor Emeritus and international affairs columnist of UPI, writing the bi-weekly syndicated column ‘Walker’s World.’
He is an author and historian, a Senior Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC; a Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute at the New School University in New York; and a Director of Global Panel, an international policy advisory body.
He and his wife Julia Watson, the novelist and food writer, have two grown daughters and a basset hound and they divide their time between Washington DC and the Perigord region of France.
I picked up The Dark Vineyard not long after finishing the first in the Bruno, Chief of Police series. The town of Saint-Denis and the people are just so wonderful, and I’m glad this second in the series was just as good as the first. This time around, Bruno is …
Bruno is the only municipal policeman in the small town of St. Denis, France. He’s a good guy, he is not a brooding policeman, he is not corrupt, he is not plagued by guilt, he does not go renegade. He’s a good guy. He teaches tennis to local kids, he …
