Career
He is best known for his first-hand research and story collections featured on the television shows Miracles and Other Wonders and Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. Tralins first became known when he wrote Pleasure Was My Business, the tell-all memoirs of Madam Sherry, an infamous, Miami, Florida, madam. The book was put on trial in rem and banned in the State of Florida.
The ban was later reversed in a landmark decision by the United States. Supreme Court.
(See TRALINS v. GERSTEIN, 378 United States. 576 (1964)). Tralins has published 251 books under his own name and a dozen pseudonyms, including Sean O"Shea.
He is best known for his novels Squaresville Jag, The Cozmozoids, Android Armageddon, Black Pirate, Panther John, the Mission From South.I.S. series, the Valentine Flynn novels, a dozen mind, body, spirit books, and numerous historical novels. And for a series of papaerback novels in which a James Bond-like character, Jack Lund, defeats drug lords, terrorists, and evil-intentioned occult groups.