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Friday, 15 July, 2011
American expat turns from filming war to penning Lausanne-based novel
Jon Steele, a cameraman in Iraq, moved to Switzerland after deciding he had enough of covering war. A documentary film maker, the American expat wrote about his experience in battle zones in the book War Junkie. But a chance encounter at Lausanne’s cathedral sparked an idea for his first novel, the first installment of a planned trilogy that has already been commissioned for international distribution.The Watchers is set in the Vaud capital and tells the story of the intertwining lives of the cathedral’s town crier, a high-priced prostitute and a private detective. WRS’s Alex Helmick talks to Steele about his new book and life in Lausanne:
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