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Joseph R. Garber


Born
in Philadelphia, The United States
August 14, 1943

Died
May 27, 2005

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Joseph R. Garber was an American author, best known for his 1995 thriller Vertical Run and for the articles he wrote on technology for Forbes magazine.

Garber was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, moving often as an army brat. He attended the University of Virginia, but quit to join the U.S. Army himself, eventually graduating from East Tennessee State University in 1968 with a philosophy degree.

Garber worked for AT&T as a business long-distance consultant and a writer for the AT&T in-house magazine. He then worked as a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton for a decade, writing fiction and non-fiction freelance in his spare time. After a prolonged flu, he quit his job and moved to Woodside, California, where he wrote for Forbes magazine and ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 3,274 ratings · 343 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors
Vertical Run
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Whirlwind
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In a Perfect State
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Rascal Money
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Untitled Garber #1
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垂直の戦場
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My life story
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Vertical Run: A Novel
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“Experience proves that the man who obstructs a war in which his nation is engaged, no matter whether right or wrong, occupies no enviable place in life or history. Better for him, individually, to advocate war, pestilence, and famine, than to act as obstructionist to a war already begun.”
― Joseph R. Garber, Vertical Run
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