Author Cym Lowell recently sat down with Janice Maynard to discuss his thriller, “Jaspar’s War” and talk about his initiative, OPERATION: NEXT CHAPTER, and how it is helping wounded service men and women.

Through this initiative, money is raised to purchase voice-activated computers for our heroes who are severely wounded or injured and are not able to use their hands.

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Big Law attorneys [have] …  published thrillers during the past year. These lawyer-writers describe women and men who’ve enjoyed exotic beaches and dinner parties, who bid for power at the top of the federal government and who risk themselves to save the United States or, at least, solve a mystery. Cym Lowell, a McDermott, Will & Emery tax partner based in Dallas and Vietnam War veteran, self-published the novel “Jaspar’s War” in March. The book describes the wife of the secretary of the Treasury as she travels across the world to rescue her family after a mysterious plane crash. There’s one question Lowell hears more than others. “How much research did this take?” he said. “And I just smile and say, ‘None, because I’ve lived this.'” Of all the far-flung scenes in Lowell’s book, he’s only failed to visit one: Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

I am pleased to report that I have been writing thrillers for almost 20 years. It began with a daughter studying at Oxford and having to write a novel in a tutorial. She picked out an event that actually happened to us on a train ride through Switzerland. There were a few places where she needed some additional life experience to fill in blanks in the story. I became hooked.