About Raul Roque

About Raul Roqué

Raul Roqué is a writer of fiction living outside Phoenix, Arizona. The first name is pronounced like "Paul" and the last name like "Row-kay." Raul writes across several genrés, but concentrates on mysteries that are adventure-driven, as opposed to hard boiled "who dunits." If you like Carl Hiassen, you'll like Raul Roqué.

What can you expect from Raul Roqué fiction? First, the stories are ones you'd like to tell other people yourself. You can expect quirky characters. Like you and me, everyone has problems. Some characters have BIG problems. Some characters do things you simply won't believe.

Is there sex? Yeah, sure. Is there violence? What do you think? But more than anything else, Raul tries to build a sense of geographical and factual authenticity that even today's most popular and widely published authors seem to ignore. Weaponry is checked by a firearms expert. Cars and trucks are verified by a guy who lives and breathes transportation. Military, police, restaurants, roads and rail lines...you can follow along with an atlas if you want.

Why is Raul obsessed with this? You need look no further than Patricia Cornwell's recent book Predator where she has Kay's neice, Lucy, employing a "helicopter pilot who flew Black Hawks in Vietnam." That would be pretty difficult when Sikorski put the Black Hawk into service in 1979, a little late for Vientam. Raul has seen BMW's have V-6 engines, (they have only inline 6-cylinder engines, V-8s, or at one time, V-12s); a Taurus coupe (only came in a 4-door model though, in an act of cowardice, NASCAR allowed Ford to create a fake coupe for racing); Purdue having a law school (never has had one, never will.) Guns carry the wrong number of rounds in the wrong caliber...the errors are all too common.

Makes you wonder how much of the other technical data that's supposed to make the fiction realistic is wrong.

Raul writes because he has always been a story teller. Some would say that he's more of a b&%% shi##er. Whatever. He'll take that as a compliment.