THE AUTHOR

David Brandin made his bones in computing in 1959 when he began programming IBM and UNIVAC computers. His career included research and computer applications specializing in simulation of dynamic systems. Most of his work was defense oriented, until the birth of networking. He served as Vice President and Director of Computer Science and Technology at Stanford Research Institute (1972 – 1986). He was President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, 1982-1984). He served on the National Security team in President Carter’s Federal ADP Reorganization Project, and as a member of the Public Cryptography Study Group where he coauthored the final report. Brandin chaired the first U.S. Department of Commerce Study of Japanese Technology. He co-authored The Technology War, a non-fiction book on international competition in IT, New York, J. Wiley, 1987, and TBS Britannica, Tokyo, 1989; and the definition of the Internet in the Third Encyclopedia of Computer Science, Nature Publishing Group, New York, 2000. Brandin began working on networking problems in 1972. He co-founded Interop and managed the technical aspects of the conference networks and became SVP International. He earned a BS Mathematics from Illinois Institute of Technology and completed the Stanford GSB Summer Program. His began writing fiction in 2004.

Reuben’s Grift is his fifth novel. The first, The Horns of Moses, is a Middle East political thriller (2007), A sequel, Project Moses, was published in 2020.  The Lodge—A Tale of Corruption (2009) describes a fraternal order fraught with venality as it sells twenty acres of beachfront property to finance the construction of a new Lodge. Willful Intent (2017), based on real facts, is a police procedure tale that chronicles the history of an innocent LAPD officer pursued by the federal government after the unrelated Rodney King incident, for a show trial and incarceration.

He’s published three collections of short stories:  The Earthquake Prophet (2011), The Miracle of Alvito (2008), and WINGS Flash Fiction Stories (2015).  He’s a master scuba driver, a member of the San Luis Obispo NightWriters, a fellow of the ACM, and the Economic Strategy Institute, and he co-authored a column on Computing in California Business. He resides with his wife on the central coast.

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