After many fruitful years as a businessman, Alan started on this new career path as a fiction writer at a time some people are retiring. When asked why, Fleishman said, tongue in cheek, "I just wasn't finished adding to my resume." The writer was quite surprised by the success of his first two novels, Goliath's Head and A Fine September Morning, so he kept on writing. His newest novel, Lara's Shadow, is a compelling piece of historical fiction that tells the love story of a Jewish American Army officer and a German woman caught in post-Holocaust hate. Like the main character in Lara's Shadow,