Another fellow CT author in the shape of Mark Rubinstein is the guest on today's "A Book and a Chat". a physician, a psychiatrist, and assistant professor of psychiatry at Cornell University–writes rocket-paced suspense/thriller, stand-alone novels about people involved in life-and death struggles with forces they cannot control. The action in these plot-driven novels is brutal and realistic, but the novels brim with uspense because the characters are complex and conflicted and are often driven by their pasts when faced with the life-altering horrors of the present.

His latest book is "Mad Dog House"