COURTESY OF KEITH RAFFEL MURDER, MAYHEM AND MYSTERY IN SILICON VALLEY When it comes to writing novels, most authors need to rely pretty heavily on outside sources and imagination. Keith Raffel, however, can draw quite a bit from personal experience. ¶ For example, when his main character is a hotshot executive or successful software entrepreneur navigating the business terrain of Palo Alto, Raffel knows exactly what he’s talking about because he was both. When he describes what it’s like hobnobbing with Washington insiders, that, too, is familiar ground to Raffel, who was counsel to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in the late 1970s and early '80s. And when he talks about a middle-age entrepreneur in Silicon Valley who sells his company and goes to Jerusalem to uncover an ancient mystery, he, too, has spent time in that role and in those places. In many cases, Raffel doesn’t need to walk in his characters’ shoes because they walk in his. » PALO ALTO WRITER KEITH RAFFEL CAPTURES THE DRAMA AND INTRIGUE OF THE REGION IN HIS POPULAR THRILLERS. BY JULIE VALLONE 66 South Bay Accent
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