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Corban Addison: Corban Addison is the author of three international bestselling novels, A Walk Across the Sun, The Garden of Burning Sand, and The Tears of Dark Water, which address some of today's most pressing human rights issues. An attorney, activist, and world traveler, he is a supporter of numerous humanitarian causes, including the abolition of modern slavery, gender-based violence, and HIV/AIDS. Corban Addison holds degrees in law and engineering from the University of Virginia and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He lives with his wife and children in Virginia.
The Tears of Dark Water: A sailboat adrift in the Indian Ocean. On board, a band of nervous Somali pirates holds an American father and his troubled son hostage. In America, his wife waits terrified, relying on a top hostage negotiator to find a peaceful resolution before the military intervenes. And on the Somali shore, a brutalized young woman enslaved in a marriage to a militant jihadi hides a connection to one of the kidnappers that might be the key to peace... and redemption.
Faktorovich: Can you describe your career in the law up to the present day? Did you practice in defense or prosecution? Did you work independently or for a major law firm? In criminal, in civil or in corporate law? Was it difficult to enter this profession right out of law school? How has your career progressed in the law over the years? Have you met your goals in this career?
Addison: After graduating from Virginia Law in 2004,1 completed a clerkship with a federal judge and then did civil litigation at a small law firm, representing plaintiffs and defendants in businessoriented lawsuits. I practiced there for six years while moonlighting as an aspiring novelist. I wrote a number of unpublished manuscripts, and then my wife gave me the idea for A Walk Across the Sun, about the global trade in human beings. For a while I worked two jobs -law during the day and writing in the evenings and on weekends. My wife was very supportive of the project, but the pace wore both of us down. When I got a generous book deal for A Walk Across the Sun and my follow-up, The Garden of Burning Sand, I...