Mount Pleasant Officer is An Author, Too
Mount Pleasant Police officer Brian Eisel has published a novel that fits with world events but also asks the reader to think a little bit.
Getting your audience to identify with, and perhaps even sympathize with, the terrorist main character of your first novel is a tall order; but Mount Pleasant Police officer Brian Eisel wants readers to do exactly that. Eisel is a 16-year veteran of the MPPD, serving as an evidence technician and as a senior traffic investigator. He has written Spiders in the Sand, a story about a young Iraqi man who as a child watched his father get murdered by an American. He joins a terrorist organization that encourages the young man's hatred of all things American, but when it comes time to getting his revenge, there's a choice to be made. "The main character is really the bad guy, and I'm asking readers to get inside his head so by the end you want …
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