When he and his brothers were growing up in a rough part of a small Wisconsin town, their Norwegian-immigrant mother didn't set the bar too high for her rebellious middle son. "Just don't wind up in jail," she said. It took Karl Jacobs a few years to tame his mischievous spirit, but he wound up in a jail only once, and that was some years later to interview a civil rights demonstrator in St. Louis who had been arrested. The demonstrator went on to become a popular Congressman. And eventually Karl found himself working in Congress. By that time, he had covered racial violence in Watts and Chicago as a journalist and met and talked with newsmakers of every sort, including a U.S. Senator named John F. Kennedy, a charismatic minister named Martin Luther King, and a brother of the man who assassinated King. When Karl left the news media, he worked in the headquarters of major corporations in NYC, New Jersey, and Delaware, becoming a special assistant to the Vice Chairman of DuPont and, after a hitch as press secretary for a U.S. Senator, a vice president at Prudential Financial and chief speechwriter for two of its chairmen and CEO's. Both of his novels grew out of this mix of experiences. His latest, THE HONORABLE THING, is the funny, deeply moving story of two 30-something people, both married, who are thrown together in a puritanical giant corporation and break all the rules by falling in love. His other novel, THE PRESIDENT'S KILLERS, an Amazon bestseller, was inspired by the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King. Born and reared in Superior, Wisconsin, Karl is a journalism graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he later did graduate work in sociology as a Sage Fellow. He and his wife Kay met in high school band when he winked at her on a quarter bet with a fellow trumpet-player. She winked back and he won both the quarter and, eventually, Kay. He was 16 and she was 14 at the time. They have three adult children and now live in Arizona.