Featured Author Chuck Konkel

Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Chuck Konkel has a Master’s  degree in International Relations, speaks several languages fluently and was an Inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police before joining the Toronto Police were he became an acknowledged expert in both Asian and Eastern European Organized crime serving.

Konkel is a serving police investigator with several decades of law enforcement experience who began his career as an Inspector in the Royal Hong Kong Police before the recent Communist takeover.  He works closely with Interpol, the National Police Forces of Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium in addition to the RCMP and FBI in matters involving organized crime both in Canada and Europe. Konkel has lectured at the Polish Police Academy Legionowo, Poland with FBI funding and was personal advisor to the late Commandant of the National Police of Poland, Marek Papala. During his time there, Konkel was warned by Western allies that major crime bosses were very displeased that he was assisting the Polish Commissioner in developing strategies to combat organized crime groups in Poland. They warned him to leave Poland.  A few months after Konkel returned to Canada, Marek Papala was murdered.  The crime is still unsolved.

On other occasions, Konkel executed a search warrant in a closed area near Moscow (it proved to be a site integral to making illicit missile components). He also executed a search warrant on the Canadian International Development Agency in Ottawa in furtherance of an investigation involving corrupt Russian generals funnelling their assets into Canada.

Chuck Konkel has written two previous thrillers- both well received nationally and internationally. The Glorious East Wind (Random House Canada/ McGraw Hill US) is about the final years of British Hong Kong and accurately predicted the Tienamin Square massacre.  As a result he appeared in major media across Canada and on Larry King Live, NBC-National with John Miller, PBS National Radio and David Letterman, among many others. 

He was a regular on Canadian national television and appeared on radio/television programs internationally including Larry King, David Letterman, Tom Snyder (NBC) and Bob Grant (CBS radio nation-wide).  He was a regular book reviewer for two major Canadian newspaper chains.