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Bio:
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Greetings and thanks for stopping by to visit my page. I am a retired USAF Colonel and a new author, with a three-book contract! I am writing The Child Finder Trilogy, a suspense/thriller series inspired by the experiences I had over my 25-year USAF career in the murky TOP SECRET world of counterintelligence and counterterrorism.
I am also proud that my debut novel, Child Finder, won the Silver Medal for Fiction in the 2009 Military Writers Society of America's Annual Awards program!
Child Finder debuted in June 2009 and received a wonderful review by the prestigious Library Journal (LJ). The LJ placed it on its Summer Reads list and said it is a "compelling debut novel," and a "real find."
I am "thrilled" (pun intended) to say Child Finder received an excellent 5-Star review from Armchair Interviews. Here's a snippet of what reviewer Stephanie Boyd had to say:
“I loved this book! This is a book for anyone who loves political suspense, secret government agencies, and uniquely gifted heroes! A former Military Intelligence Officer, the author’s background adds credibility to this fascinating look into covert operations. But just because he knows what he is talking about doesn’t mean he can tell a good story or especially write one! Luckily for those of us who love secret undercover organizations, paranormal stories, and great intriguing suspense filled tales, Mike Angley has it all together. I can’t wait to read the next two books in the series!”
The entire review can be found here: http://reviews.armchairinterviews.com/reviews/child-finder
Child Finder follows the adventures of an Air Force Special Agent, Major Patrick O'Donnell, as he discovers he has a unique psychic gift that permits him to find abducted children. I wrote the story because it had been in my head for many years, nagging away at me. I finally set pen to paper in 2001, putting the first draft of the manuscript aside for several years while I continued my Air Force career catching spies, terrorists, and criminals (see below for more about me).
When I retired in 2007 I dusted it off, fell back in love with the characters, and worked to improve the plot line. I believe I have a wonderful story to tell that has trappings of my own personal experiences working in the dark world of government Special Access Programs
I have been writing my second story, Child Finder: Resurrection. Scheduled for publication in December 2009, it is a sequel to the first, and continues the child-finding quests of Special Agent O'Donnell who now faces evil forces he never could have imagined before.
The final story in the trilogy is Child Finder: Revelation (projected for publication in December 2010). Special Agent Patrick O'Donnell will go to Korea on the most dangerous mission of his career. Children of a senior U.S. government official have been kidnapped, and only O'Donnell can decipher the clues needed to find them! What he learns about these children, and himself, involve government secrets so sensitive, that he will question his understanding of life, his faith, and his place in the universe.
Please check out the following website to learn more about my novels: www.childfinder.us.
For a more detailed biography, visit the website for my book. In the meantime, here's a short summary:
I retired from the U.S. Air Force in September 2007 in the rank of Colonel, following a wonderful 25 year career as a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI). I'm a seasoned criminal investigator and a counterintelligence and counterterrorism specialist. Following the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, I was dispatched to command all OSI units throughout the Middle East, with responsibility for 23 countries. My teams effectively neutralized numerous terrorist threats to U.S. forces in the region, to include an imminent threat to senior Department of Defense officials. Earlier in my career, while commanding an OSI unit in northern Japan, I conducted an operation that effectively blocked a KGB agent's efforts to steal critical U.S. technology, and thereby stymied Soviet military advances for years.
In my last assignment, I was the Commander of OSI Region 8, at Air Force Space Command. I like to tell people, "If it entered or exited Earth’s atmosphere, then I had a dog in the fight!"
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