Richard Conard is a retired architect, since 2007, when he quit practicing architecture in Denver, Colorado and built a home on the lake of his childhood in Minnesota where his int...view moreRichard Conard is a retired architect, since 2007, when he quit practicing architecture in Denver, Colorado and built a home on the lake of his childhood in Minnesota where his intent was to ski, fish, golf, relax and read. One intent was to catch up on the literary classics and those authors and books for which there wasnt sufficient time while fully employed.
The winters in northwest Minnesota are long and frigid and considerable time is spent indoors. At some point where Conards main interests seemed focused on historical fiction and where current world events mirrored the experiences of the latter half of the 20th century, he imagined a story. And rather than waiting to read it he attempted to write it. The Rupture is the result of that effort.view less