Frank Gauthier is the pen name of a real writer, and a real geologist. Frank was born in Italy. Under a cauliflower (babies in Italy are not carried by storks and left on a chimney: they are found under something: a blueberry bush, a pumpkin). For Frank it was a cauliflower.
Frank left for Montreal, on his own, when he was 19. There he attended the Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal graduating in engineering (geology) in 1973. He went on to get a Master in Geochemistry in 1974. He worked for a few years in Northern Quebec, then left to teach Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique of Thies, Senegal, for CIDA, the Canadian International Development Agency. Back in Montreal he got an MBA from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (International Marketing), in 1980. He then worked for a number of Engineering firms in Montreal, Georgia and California, as well as in Africa, South East Asia, South America and Europe.
Frank lives now in Piedmont whit his companion, Hopi (not her real name, but an important figure in Frank's first book: and his real companion in life
Frank has already published two books: The first one, " A Diamond Worth Killing For", although written originally in English, was published in Italian by the "Gruppo Edicom", in 2007. The second book, "Gold Kills Too" was published in e-format in 2009
Frank is presently writing a third book on how to survive in "Roero": this is an Italian wine district, and a renown gastronomic area: you need to know what to drink and eat here to get back home as lean as when you came in. The book is expected to be published in 2009.
Will Frank get in any real trouble even when writing about cooking and drinking?
Frank reads at least a book per week. Books he enjoys the most are those by Robert Ludlum, John Grisham, Ken Follet, Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, Dan Brown, Le Carré, Wilbur Smith (from whom Frank got the inspiration and wrote his first two thrillers), Frederick Forsyth, Bill Bryson (who inspired the writing of the third book
Frank has two nationalities. He'd like to have a third one. He's working on it. He also has two passports, one European and one Canadian: unfortunately both are under his real name. Also four driver licenses, two of which internationals, under different names: that's ok.
He is looking for two more passports, one Nigerian (this is where he will go next) and one Brazilian, under two different names. Frank's open to suggestions. Given his uncanny ability to get in real trouble, two more passports is the minimum he needs to hide and survive.
