Jenny and I are more than co-authors: We are creative and life companions!

I, John Eduard begun my career in front of flickering screens. For ten years, I worked as a television technician—a translator between humans and those early electronic oracles in our living rooms, whose glow still came from cathode ray tubes. I was the one who had to explain how a VCR worked—clearly enough that it could actually be used afterward. As it turned out, this was a useful kind of school for what came next.

Then came the study of law—and the choice of the legal profession.

For over three decades, I’ve been advising international companies on how to craft and negotiate contracts—a quiet battle over every word, every implication, every consequence. I’ve taught at universities, stripped the mystery from the law in lecture halls and classrooms, and in over a thousand seminars and talks, tried to turn legal codes into tangible tools.

But somewhere between pleadings and statutes, words began to whisper. Not legal ones—but literary ones. And so “Fort Knox: The Greatest Heist of All Time” came into being—not as a satire, but as a fable-like mirror of our times. Written together with Jenny, whose thinking often opposes mine in the most enlightening ways.

Jenny is a teacher of biology, chemistry, and physics—her mind shaped by the clarity and discipline of the sciences. She is deeply admired by her students for the way she treats ignorance not with condescension, but with respectful curiosity, and for her pedagogical precision in building tension and insight step by step. Her presence in this book is not secondary to mine—it is, in many ways, the guiding force.

Our strength lies not in agreement, but in respectful tension — in harmony, and in love.

What sustained us went beyond words—the shared love for sunrises and sunsets by the sea, the mutual silence in sync with the rhythm of the waves, and the singing that, again and again, brought our voices into harmony, even when our thoughts pulled in opposite directions.

Stories that try to say something about power, greed, truth, and love need friction. And sometimes, enlightenment begins where explanation ends—and storytelling takes over.