Chris Semal (Author of Trial of Tears)

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Chris Semal

欧宝娱乐 Author

Born

in New York, The United States

September 24

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Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Humor

Member Since

October 2011

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Chris Semal was born in New York City and has lived there all his life. He is aware that other places exist and likes to visit them from time to time, but the city is a hard mistress to resist.

A musician, singer and songwriter, Semal has played pretty much every rock club and bar in Manhattan at one time or another since the early 80s in various bands. He鈥檚 seen the underside of the music industry 鈥� the good, bad and ugly 鈥� also through his solo work, under the lewscannon heading.

Semal went to the University of Miami to study Music Engineering, heading back north to do the only obvious thing possible, becoming a municipal bond broker and eventually working as a consultant building financial models.

In the early part of the millennium, betwee ...more

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A blank canvas stretched across an easel; a pristine page; a solid, uncarved chunk of marble sitting on a pedestal; the hiss of blank tape running through a recorder. OK, I鈥檓 dating myself with the tape reference. Everyone records digitally nowadays, so there is no more hiss, just the faint echo of megabytes hopping around on a hard disk. All these elements give the person about to start working o Read more of this blog post »

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Trial of Tears

3.36 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions

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The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)

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The King's Deception (Cotton Malone, #8)

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Entry Island

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