Karen Black

Karen Black, a USA National and International Bestselling author, is a retired California Certified estate planning, trust, probate and elder law attorney. Her diverse background “before law,” included legal secretary, construction company estimator and office manager, award-winning Suzuki motorcycle dealer, and truck bumper and automotive parts salesperson. Her husband, Cole Black, spent almost seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and provided the information for the prison details of Code of Conduct. Captain Black was killed in 2007 when the private plane returning him from a speaking engagement in Roseburg, Oregon, ran out of gas and crashed near Bakersfield, CA, killing three people. Karen has four children from a previous marriage. Cole had two children from a previous marriage (one deceased). Together they have ten grandchildren or step-grandchildren (one deceased) and eight great-grandchildren. Code of Conduct was her first published novel. The 2020 version is a rewritten (vastly improved! - humbly she said) of the book she published in 2000, which still shows up on searches for Code of Conduct. It did have seven 5-star ratings, but please order only the 2020 version. She has since published four more novels and, at the urging of several who said "you've had such an interesting life," she has written her autobiograph, Fortitude, available in either color or black and white.