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}} G. M. Lawrence (born June 8, 1956) is an American novelist and scholar. > He is the author of the philo-thriller Q: Awakening and of a number of best-selling business treatises.

Biography
Lawrence was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of school teachers. After completing his undergraduate degree, Lawrence trained as a deep-sea diver in Aberdeen, Scotland and at Vickers Oceanics, a division of Vickers International in St. Andrews, Scotland. He lived and worked as a commercial diver in England, Scotland, Holland and Wales before returning to the United States to enroll at Vanderbilt University School of Law where he graduated Order of the Coif and was an editorial board member on The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. After graduation, he joined a major international law firm where he headed the global technology transactions group before leaving to pursue his scholarly and writing endeavors and to launch the private investment fund, Pacific Venture Investments.

Fiction
Lawrence is the author of Q: Awakening. Q: Awakening is the first in a trilogy of fast-paced, international thrillers involving New Zealand archeologist Declan Stewart and his suspenseful quest for the lost Christian gospel called ‘Q’—for the German word “quelle” or "the source." . The second book in the trilogy, Q: Apocalypse, will be published in 2013. Lawrence is a member of the International Thriller Writers Association.

Scholarly Publications
Lawrence is the author of Due Diligence in Business Transactions, the first comprehensive treatise addressing investment, financial and business due diligence. .  The two-volume work is published by Law Journal Press, a division of ALM, a leading publisher for educators, attorneys, investors and other transactional professionals. Lawrence is also the co-author of Representing High Tech Companies, a one-volume treatise addressing technology industry issues including business, transactions and due diligence. Both texts can be found in the libraries of universities, law firms, accounting firms, underwriters, issuers and institutional investors in the United States and abroad. Lawrence is a frequent speaker and panelist at investment conferences, teaches the course “Due Diligence in Business Transactions,” and guest lectures both domestically and abroad on investments, transactions, and due diligence topics. See http://www.LawrencePartnersLLC.com >

Software Patents
Lawrence is the co-inventor of numerous software patents including “Communication Spectrum Maximization Systems and Methods,” “Systems and Methods for Evaluating Changes in Transmissions for a Point of Communication,”  and “Systems and Methods for Scoring Communication Spectrum Maximization,”  "Systems and Methods for Evaluation of Point of Communication Locations," and "Systems and Methods for Determining Feasibility Communication Spectrum Maximization," among others. .