Daniel Ginsberg grew up in the East New York and East Flatbush sections of Brooklyn. He graduated from The School of Visual Arts before serving in the Army as a military policeman and criminal photographer. Returning to civilian life, he became a New York City fashion photographer before enrolling at Louisiana State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s in reproductive physiology. He and his wife, Patsy, live in Denver, where he writes, works in his studio and takes long walks with his dog, Brewzer.
SunLit: Tell us this book’s backstory – what’s it about and what inspired you to write it?
Daniel Ginsberg: In book one of my “Banty Conners Trilogy,” SVU Detective Banty Conners and her partner, Phil Berman, accidentally notice an anomaly in the young children on the Upper Eastside of Manhattan that gets them gunned down. Without giving too much of the plot away, international child smuggling and greed are two crimes that have always irked me…