Marc J. Seifer

In the tradition of Exodus and Captain Corelli's Mandolin, comes a sweeping two-tiered family saga with a modern story concerning ace reporter Rudy Styne, who runs into his look-alike at an airport in Munich while tracking a master computer hacker, and a back story about the Maxwells, a turn of the 20th century Jewish family struggling to build the most prestigious airline in Bavaria. The modern story begins, where Book 1, RASPUTIN'S NEPHEW ends, with the marriage of Rudy Styne to his alluring (and very pregnant) girlfriend Chessie Barnsworth. At the wedding, an ancient Jewish man, Abe Maxwell, appears who apparently is somehow related to Styne. As the reader will come to find out, in DOPPELGANGER and its sequel, CRYSTAL NIGHT, Abe Maxwell is also tied to the back story which is somehow related to Rudy Styne's German look-alike. Concerning the back story, Seifer brings this vital Maxwell family alive as we watch two brothers use their savvy to advance their little airline empire in a hostile environment, with the elder brother, Elias, handling the business end, by in part, assimilating into the Christian community, and the younger brother, Simon, master mechanic and daredevil, handling the production end, constructing aeroplanes for their own airline and also motors for Count Zeppelin. As we watch the century advance through the family's eyes, we also watch Simon enter the very first aerial competitions where he races against such European aeronauts as Sopwith, Bleriot, Fokker and Junkers to build the fastest and most efficient flying machine. But greater forces intervene as Simon finds himself caught up in the Great War as an ace pilot for Germany flying alongside such heavyweights as Hermann G ring, his boyhood friend and later day Nazi party leader, the Blue Max, the Red Baron and Ernst Udet, the greatest surviving German pilot from this first World War, as they battle against the very French and British colleagues Simon had raced just two years before. DOPPELGANGER will definitely appeal to anyone interested in the cause and general happenings of WWI, how aeroplane technology advanced the war as well as modern day Internet security concerns. The author offers extremely well-researched factual information throughout.... What I particularly liked was Marc J. Seifer's style of writing and I am looking forward to reading Part III, the sequel CRYSTAL NIGHT of his Quadrilogy.... I found that I became completely immersed in the subject matter and totally absorbed with the goings-on of the multitude of colorful characters. I could not wait to find out what would happen next Online Book Reviewer. Wall Street Journal and USA Today best selling author of WIZARD: THE LIFE & TIMES OF NIKOLA TESLA, BIOGRAPHY OF A GENIUS is Marc J. Seifer, Ph.D. Star of the 5-part mini-series THE TESLA FILES available on HuLu, Dr. Seifer has been hailed as a great story teller. His creation of the RUDY STYNE QUADRILOGY is the result of over 30 years research and writing. Embedded in each tale are real events spanning such topics as psychic warfare, the history of flight, flying with the Red Baron during WWI, the real history of the Miracle at Dunkirk and the understanding of the onset of WWII from both the Jewish and German perspective, forensic handwriting investigation and the details of what it is like for an expert to testify in court. The contemporary side of each story follows our hero, Rudy Styne, ace reporter for Modern Times Magazine as he seeks to solve a murder in each case. Starring in the 5-part mini-series THE TESLA FILES and featured in The New York Times, Wired Magazine on Coast to Coast Radio, the BBC, and American Experience, Marc J. Seifer is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Saybrook University. He is a retired psychology professor from Roger Williams University.

Seeing the Future New Novel Focuses on Premonitions and Terrorism in Near Future NEW YORK CITY, NY - Sometime in the near future, a New Age movement makes telepathy and telekinesis real world possibilities, and a reporter experiences one of these psychic powers. He is then thrust into a secret plot that threatens all humanity in the new novel, RASPUTIN'S NEPHEW: A New Age Thriller by Marc J. Seifer. RASPUTIN'S NEPHEW takes the reader into the not-so-distant future, where terrorism threatens the nation and premonition is reality. Rudy Styne is a reporter for Modern Times Magazine, who wakes one morning from a strange, foreboding dream. Later in the day, the dream comes true, and Rudy is left bewildered. He decides to get to the bottom of these premonitions by doing an article for the magazine on the subject. He travels to Bhutan to meet with an avatar and then interviews Abdullah Manu, a renowned Egyptian superpyschic who can move objects with his mind and read people's thoughts. Along the way, Rudy uncovers a heinous plot to topple the West with an army of cybernetic soldiers. At an international symposium on psychotronics in Italy, Rudy and his girlfriend, Chessie Barnsworth, meet the amiable neurophysicist Dr. Imo Bern. Rudy and Chessie are shocked to learn that the young doctor is an associate of notorious ex-KGB agent Georgi Boshtov, who they suspect is in charge of the brutal crusade to destroy the West. It is a race against time and a test of minds as Rudy dashes to stop Boshtov from destroying the western world, but Rudy tumbles deep into trouble when he learns to his horror that he is the next target. Can he save the future? Only Rasputin's Nephew can reveal the answer. A mad concoction of science and New Age philosophy, RASPUTIN'S NEPHEW rips through the fabric of the reality that you're familiar with... sucking the protagonist, Rudy Styne] into a tangle of... mad scientists, murderers, magicians, mechanical assassins and mystics - all on separate paths, all linked, all one.... The uniqueness of the story's... trajectory was very intriguing and I salute the author's ambition in writing it. Sara Kay An espionage thriller, (a la Tom Clancy).... You write with great intelligence and authority. Nicolette Phillips, New Vision. This is a terrifically original book, with elements of satire as well. Dr. Stanley Krippner, author of Song of the Siren Like a journey through the Major Arcana of the Tarot], RASPUTIN'S NEPHEW takes the reader into the bizarre and mind-boggling world of the paranormal. I enjoyed Marc Seifer's book thoroughly.Uri Geller, Paranormalist Extraordinaire Wall Street Journal and USA Today best selling author of WIZARD: THE LIFE & TIMES OF NIKOLA TESLA, BIOGRAPHY OF A GENIUS is Marc J. Seifer, Ph.D. Star of the 5-part mini-series THE TESLA FILES available on HuLu, Dr. Seifer has been hailed as a great story teller. His creation of the RUDY STYNE QUADRILOGY is the result of over 30 years research and writing. Embedded in each tale are real events spanning such topics as psychic warfare, the history of flight, flying with the Red Baron during WWI, the real history of the so-called Miracle at Dunkirk and the understanding of the onset of WWII from both the Jewish and German perspective, forensic handwriting investigation what it is like for an expert to testify in court. The contemporary side of each story follows our hero, Rudy Styne, ace reporter for Modern Times Magazine as he seeks to solve a murder in each case. Featured in The New York Times, Wired Magazine on Coast to Coast Radio, the BBC, and American Experience, a graduate of the University of Chicago and Saybrook University, Marc J. Seifer is a retired psychology professor from Roger Williams University. Google his YouTube/Vimeos for each title as he explains an overview of (1) RASPUTIN'S NEPHEW, (2) DOPPELGANGER, (3) CRYSTAL NIGHT and (4) FATE LINE.

CRYSTAL NIGHT is the sequel to DOPPELGANGER, a book which opens with the wedding of ace reporter, Rudy Styne, to Chessie Barnsworth, the love of his life who happens to be quite pregnant. At the wedding, Abe Maxwell, an elderly Jewish gentleman with a heavy German accent insists that their child obtain a bris, when Rudy does not even know that he may in fact be Jewish. During their honeymoon, Rudy and Chessie travel to Germany and that is where he runs into his look-alike, one Rolf Linzman, son of industrialist Gunter Linzman, owner of MB Airways, a successful offshoot of Lufthansa. ⟨br⟩ ⟨br⟩The back story, continues the tale of the Maxwells, a German Jewish family struggling to maintain their elite airline during WWI, through the air-war, flying with Hermann G ring and the Red Baron in the first novel and continuing their struggle through the rise of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust through WWII in CRYSTAL NIGHT. The modern story continues the saga of Rudy Styne, still on the trail of a master hacker threatening to take over the Internet. On a personal level, Rudy is also searching for his birth parents somehow linked to the Maxwells, and this mysterious Abe Maxwell, who in turn, is suing Gunter Linzman, the father of Rudy's doppelg nger to try and get back his long-lost airline, now a billion dollar off-shoot of Lufthansa. ⟨br⟩ ⟨br⟩The overall presentation of the trials that faced a Jewish-German family during the rise of Anti-Semitism... is stirring on how the triumph of faith and spirit, can overcome the suffering of a strong, resilient people during one of the darkest periods in modern history. .... You are a masterful storyteller. Edith Moraglia, New York City reader⟨br⟩ ⟨br⟩I had to tell you how much I am enthralled with CRYSTAL NIGHT You are an incredible chronicler your knowledge is vast You have woven such minute detail into the tapestry or rather web of the novel. It lives for me, that is the Germany] and times I remember. I rush through supper to get comfortable on the sofa with The Book. I just can't put it down. Gloria McMurrough, Admissions Office, Roger Williams University. ⟨br⟩ ⟨br⟩Starring in the 5-part mini-series THE TESLA FILES and featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired Magazine on Coast to Coast Radio, the BBC, All Things Considered and American Experience, Marc J. Seifer is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Saybrook University. Author of the acclaimed biography WIZARD: THE LIFE & TIMES OF NIKOLA TESLA, and a Wall Street Journal Best-selling author, Dr. Seifer is a retired psychology professor from Roger Williams University. Google his YouTube/Vimeos for each title of The Rudy Styne Quadrilogy as he explains an overview of (1) RASPUTIN'S NEPHEW, (2) DOPPELGANGER, (3) CRYSTAL NIGHT and (4) FATE LINE.

"["Wizard"] brings the many complex facets of [Tesla's] personal and technical life together in to a cohesive whole.... I highly recommend this biography of a great technologist." --A.A. Mullin, U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command, COMPUTING REVIEWS"[Along with "A Beautiful Mind"] one of the five best biographies written on the brilliantly disturbed." --WALL STREET JOURNAL""Wizard "is a compelling tale presenting a teeming, vivid world of science, technology, culture and human lives." --NEW SCIENTIST"Marc Seifer is an excellent writer and scholar, who has produced a wonderfully readable and illuminating biography of one of the most intriguing men of this century... mak[ing] us understand not only the man, but also the times in which he lived. . . . [A] masterpiece." --NELSON DEMILLE"The author presents much new material... [and] bases his book on a large number of archival and primary sources.... Underneath the layers of hero worship, the core of Seifer's book is a serious piece of scholarship." --Ronald Kline, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN "Seifer has done a remarkable job going through all the Tesla manuscripts... ferret[ing] out hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles in which he traces out Tesla's public image [and] offers a reasonable reconstruction of Tesla's emotional world. . . . Seifer has significantly advanced our understanding of Tesla." --Bernard Carlson, author of Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, for ISIS"It is my opinion that Dr. Seifer leads the world as the most authoritative of all the Tesla researchers." --J.W. McGINNIS, President, International Tesla Society"Far and away the best job among Tesla biographies." --Jeffrey D. Kooistra, INFINITE ENERGY""Wizard "is ... utterly absorbing with chapters charting all stages of Tesla's life.... Seifer treats his prodigious subject with sympathy and realism." --NEXUS"Wizard... presents a much more accurate... picture of Tesla.... [It] is thorough, informative, entertaining and a valuable addition to electrotechnological history, past and future." --ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING TIMES"In modern times, Tesla may be enjoying a comeback thanks to books like "Wizard."" --THE NEW YORK TIMES"Here is a deep and comprehensive biography of a great engineer of early electrical science. Indeed, it is likely to become the definitive biography of the Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla. .... Highly recommended." --AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE