Glenn Ashton, who writes interesting books, used to be a banker and a lawyer, but had more fun writing novels than wrestling with finance and the law, and so turned his hand to his hobby. Glenn Ashton is the penname of Glenn van Schalkwyk. He has written Obelisk Seven, a thriller about obelisks and global warming (co-authored with his wife Loraine Lundquist); Silent Lips (a thriller about New York under siege from a bioengineered virus); Cupid's Crescent, a thriller about bankers and kidnappings; The Euros: Notre Dame Point Zero, the first in a series of thrillers about a unit of super cops de...