Before he started discussing his new book, “Two Dramatic Lives,” Dave Roseman had a clarification, delivered lightheartedly: that tall, handsome man on the cover, dressed in a dark suit and standing next to an attractive woman in a black dress, is not him.
“I want to be candid. I am skinny, totally bald, and I’m not James Bond, that is for sure,” the congenial Roseman said during a recent conversation with the Coastal Point.
Maybe not, but that didn’t stop the 77-year-old Roseman — who spent 30 years in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, also called the Clandestine Service — from writing the book “as women’s fiction that would appeal to men,” with the message, “There are struggles in life. There are difficulties, but they can be overcome, and overcome with the help of family and others. Not only people who know you but others who become family can help with the plight you’re going through.”
“When I originally wrote it,” he said, “the main character was male. Then, after I started doing more research, I saw so many novels out there about espionage and leading male characters and adventure. I thought, in today’s world, it’s far more important to be talking about female empowerment ...