The third novel of the Elba Trilogy by Drew Banks

I'm a San Francisco-based retired tech entrepreneur (NCSU, MIT, Oxford). In my business writing as well as fiction, I deconstruct behavioral patterns in an attempt to explore psychological motivations and deterrents. While my business books examine organizational implications of various social psychologies, I am drawn to fiction as a more intimate medium for delving beneath the surface of an individual.

My Elba Trilogy consists of three independent novels—Able Was I, Ere I Saw Elba, and , I Before E—all dealing with the issue of exile, physical and emotional, with the protagonist of each (as well as some ancillary characters) woven throughout.