Rodolfo Peña (1947-?) was born in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on the border with Texas, to parents of a very mixed (German, Jewish, Italian, Spanish, and who know what else) background. For many years he bounced back and forth between jobs of a technical nature (computers, expert systems) and those of a more artistic bent (writes for educational television, scripts for commercials, director of museums). His first book, "An Inconsequential Murder," deals with the birth of the collusion between the conservative forces in Mexico and US agencies such as the DEA and FBI to start the "Drug Wars" in Mexico. In 2010, the book was published by Untreed Reads as an ebook. His second book, "The Minister's Secret" is in the hands of the same publisher. It is a story about Nazi art theft in WWII and the French collaborators who grew rich conspiring with the Nazis to steal art from Jewish persons. As short story, "Venus in the Metro" is also available in Amazon. Rodolfo loves watching the grass grow in his back yard in Southern France, where he lives with his wife, and no dogs or cats.