Joseph Badal
5 SeriesJoseph Badal is an American author known for his suspense-thriller novels, including the Bob Danforth series. He spent nearly 40 years in banking and finance, and previously served in highly classified positions in the U.S. Army across the United States, Greece, and Vietnam. Badal holds an undergraduate degree in International Finance from Temple University and an MBA from the University of New Mexico.
In Joseph Badal's standalone novel, "The Pythagorean Solution," American John Hammond becomes embroiled in a decades-old mystery upon discovering a dying Greek fisherman, Peter Vangelos, in an alley on the Aegean island of Samos. Vangelos hands Hammond a coded map that leads to the location of a Turkish tramp steamer sunk in 1945, rumored to carry a fortune in gold and jewels. As Hammond, Vangelos, and young archaeologist Zoe decipher the map, they uncover connections to the ancient mathematician Pythagoras and other significant archaeological sites.
