by Alan Stamm Fictional characters resemblances to actual people aren t always purely coincidental, of course. The it s-all-made-up disclaimer before Page 1 is a legal shield, not a barrier that keeps authors from writing what they know. And popular novelist Stephen Mack Jones of Farmington Hills certainly knows a real-life Detroit billionaire who s distinctly like a pivotal figure in Dead of Winter, his newly published third book in a series about private investigator August Snow.
Stephen Mack Jones, author of three novels about a biracial former Detroit cop
(Photo: Twitter) The supposedly made-up character is introduced in Chapter 2 on Page 11 as Detroit s resident billionaire, Vic Bronson, a man who d made his fortune selling mortgages. The setup continues:
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