Where are you from?
Odessa, Ukraine
What is your main purpose in life?
To reunite with my long lost kin.
Who is your greatest enemy and why?
It is not who, it is what is my greatest enemy, and what is the established structures of society – corporations and governments, which are holding back civilization from real human progress.
Do you think you can ever reconcile with this enemy?
My goal is not reconciliation, but annihilation, only then can there be true freedom.
What is your weapon of choice?
My mind, my heart and my passion.
What makes you happy?
My clan and my children.
Do you have a code of honor?
“The Cossack Clan will never die.”
Name one person you admire.
Shelby Locke for her perseverance and strength.
Name one person you trust.
My right hand man, Petro Vynnychenko.
About the Book
Title: Survivor of the Clan
Author: Jennifer Ott
Genre: Thriller
Scottish doll maker Shelby Locke loses everything in one instant. She watches helplessly as motorcyclists assassinate her husband and abduct her daughter. Nagging questions and even confounding reminiscences only exacerbate the problem, and her geneticist father is no help.
In the aftermath of the violence, she discovers not-so-subtle hints, which prompt her to travel to Odessa, Ukraine. Upon her arrival she follows clues laid out by the perpetrators, as if they want to be discovered. What is even more shocking, she discovers her own true identity. Could she be one with those who took away her family?
To unite with her daughter, she must join forces with those bent on nihilism, and submit her loyalty to a man, whose life mission is to rekindle his long lost kin, even if by nefarious means.
Author Bio
Jennifer Ott graduated Albright College in Pennsylvania with a degree of Fine Arts. She also studied at the Syracuse London Center, filmmaking at NYU and screenwriting through Gotham Writer’s Workshops in New York City. Her screenplays The Tourist and Truth and Craziness were semi-finalists at Austin Film Festival. Full length novel, Saying Goodbye was honorable mention of Best Beach Book awards for romance in 2014, and novella Edge of Civilization received critical praise from the Vietnam Veterans Association. She has written numerous books of several different genres from satire, historical fiction, thrillers and literary fiction.
In the real world, away from her writing, she works as a product developer in the garment industry, which has offered her the opportunity to travel around the world. When not writing or working, she enjoys yoga, meditating and relaxing on the beach.
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