2 Kill or Not to Kill consists of two thriller novellas: Lobos and A Dish Best Served Cold. The protagonist is each, Dr. Christopher Raven, martial artist, is a retired professor and a former P. I. from Indiana.
With the help of three beautiful, but very different women, he struggles for his life and theirs against several diabolical enemies.
The action takes place in San Francisco, the Monterey Penninsula and Indiana.
William Dallmann, Ph.D., Speech-Language Pathology, Purdue, 1973, M.A. Drama, San Francisco State, 1963 retired as Professor of Communicative Disorders and director of Speech-Language Clinic at Valparaiso University in 1984.
He concurrently served as Executive Director of Counseling Associates: Therapy in a Christian Context, later as a private investigator with the Wittlinger Agency, a Christian oriented detective agency based in Indianapolis.
An inducted samarai - 4th Dan aikijustsu, 3rd Dan jujitsu - he more recently retired from the teaching of martial arts at his dojo in Monterey, California. An active member of St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Monterey, and a member since 1967 of the International Society for general Semantics, he has written numerous articles about world-views and faith.
He lives with his wife, Constance (Covington, M.D, pediatrician)intheir usually empty nest in Pebble Beach, California. They have three married children: sons Shane and Alan, and daughter Lara Otsuka.
Military service: U.S. Army, Korean War, 1st Lt., machine-gun platoon commander, 25th Infantry Division; U.S. Navy, 1948-49, Seaman Apprentice, USS Atlanta, USS Doyle.