About the Author
Michael J. Totten is an award-winning journalist and prize-winning author whose very first book,
The Road to Fatima Gate, won the Washington Institute Book Prize.
He has taken road trips to war zones, sneaked into police states under false pretenses, dodged incoming rocket and mortar fire, stayed in some of the worst hotels ever built anywhere, slipped past the hostile side of a front line, been accused of being a spy, received death threats from terrorists, and been mugged by Egyptian police officers. When he's not doing or writing about these things, he writes novels.
His work has appeared in the
New York Times, the
Wall Street Journal, and
The New Republic among numerous other publications, and he's a contributing editor at
World Affairs and
City Journal. He has reported widely from the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, Latin America, and the Balkans. A former resident of Beirut, he lives in Oregon with his wife and two cats.