Bond, Mike: - Called the master of the existential thriller (BBC), one of America's best thriller writers (Culture Buzz) and one of the 21st century's most exciting authors (Washington Times), Mike Bond is the author of nine best-selling novels, a war and human rights journalist, ecologist, and award-winning poet. Based on his own experiences in many dangerous and war-torn regions of the world, his novels portray the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister conspiracies of dictators, corporations and politicians, and the beauty of the vanishing natural world.