About Dan Garson

Dan Garson spent three decades leading organizations in manufacturing, construction, and industrial services — as CEO, COO, and General Manager — before turning to fiction. He holds an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and an MBA.

RANDOM MAN draws directly on that background. Its protagonist Todd Ransom is a chemical engineer who approaches the supernatural the way an engineer approaches any unknown system: by building a classification taxonomy, running the calculation, and accepting that the data is what the data is regardless of how inconvenient it turns out to be.

The book's central argument — that genuine free will requires genuine cost, and that the people you trust most will sometimes let you walk into the damage because the choice has to be real — reflects decades of watching human beings make decisions under pressure.