Nicolas Kublicki

Nicolas Kublicki (Koo-Blitz-Key) was born in Los Angeles of a French mother and a Polish father, both World War II survivors (in 1998, Israel's Yad Vashem Foundation awarded his father the Righteous Gentile Medal for hiding a Jewish woman during the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II).

Nick graduated from the Lycée Français de Los Angeles and obtained his BA in International Relations from UCLA. He worked on defense and national security affairs on Capitol Hill for two years before obtaining his JD from Pepperdine University School of Law, then his LLM in Environmental Law from George Washington University Law School. He is admitted to the Bars of California, the District of Columbia, and the United States Supreme Court.

After serving in the Office of Policy and the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., Nick returned to Los Angeles to begin practicing real estate law in 1994. He left his law firm partnership in 2003 and currently splits his time between writing, the real estate business, charitable and community boards, and teaching Real Estate Transactions as an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University School of Law.

Nick's love of writing began at an early age. "I fell in love with writing stories as a kid during summer vacations, when my friends were swimming or hiking," he explains. He admits to regularly cutting English classes at UCLA to write short stories in the library.

While searching for his first law job, he was watching a television documentary about the history of the diamond trade on PBS and thought: "I have to write a novel about this." He was instantly hooked and started researching and writing The Diamond Conspiracy. Yet wanting to become a novelist and actually becoming one was not that simple, he soon realized. Working long, demanding hours as a lawyer required him to write in his spare time. It took him nine long years to complete and edit The Diamond Conspiracy, which received rave reviews from trade reviewers and fellow authors. It took another eight years to write and edit The Tesla Formula.

Since then, The Diamond Conspiracy has been translated and published in German as Das Monopol, in Portuguese as Conspiração Diamante, and in Thai as ตัดเหลี่ยมเพชร,. Nick is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Authors Guild. He is hard at work on his third thriller novel.

An avid traveler and adventurer at heart, Nick has had the privilege of visiting over 30 countries, including scuba diving with sharks in the South Pacific, pirogueing on the tributaries of the Amazon River in Brazil, camping among the eternal snows of the French Alps, riding a camel along the Nile in Egypt, climbing the Mayan pyramids in the Yucatan jungle of Mexico, and sailing an outboard among the glaciers of Greenland.
In his spare a time (a rare occurrence since he is married with two young daughters), he enjoys walking, scuba diving, history, reading, and movies. Like his protagonist Patrick Carlton, he is an avid admirer of vintage automobiles, a fan of Frank Sinatra (who happened to be his neighbor when he was a young child) and a devoted cigar aficionado.

Nick is thankful to Divine Providence, his family, friends, and students for their inestimable support and guidance. He is especially thankful to his readers.

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