The author worked on the game’s main plot for two years, doing intricate worldbuilding that he would later describe as satisfying. Mike would join two others in 2011 to write a computer game script called Misfortune. The site not only featured his own satire but other writers in column form. It was called Loof Columns and has since ceased to be active. He started writing about the culture and society in Israel in social commentary form, something that evolved into him launching a site focused on social satire in 2009. Once his military duties were up, the author was still influenced by his experience. He would see his second book published in 1999 while still serving, a novel called The Duck Attack that was largely intended for young adults. He would later relay that serving in the military did have the unintended consequence of making his writing a bit darker. He was in the Artillery Corps for three years. When he was eighteen years old, Omer joined the military service in Israel, something that is mandatory for all citizens once they reach adulthood. Thus, the author joined an elite group of Israeli writers penning tales in the fantasy and science fiction genres, something that the country does not have a lot of. He was the youngest writer that Opus represented at the time. Opus, an Israeli publishing house, released the work in 1995. What came out of it was a book called The Geography of the End of the World. He had read some of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett’s work at sixteen years old and was inspired to attempt writing his own first novel. Mike has always shown that he is talented at writing and on top of that loved to read tons of books in the fantasy and science fiction genres. The family would go back to Israel after the jaunt to the United States. It was there that the author developed his fluency in English. When he was six years old, his family decided to move to Boston while his father worked on a post-doctorate for a year. He has four siblings, including his brother Noam who is an artist. He has also been the recipient of various awards for his writing, including The Russian Detective Prize, the Silver Raven Award, and the LiveLib Readers’ Choice Award for Detective Fiction. His books have been translated into over a dozen different languages as they sell all over the world. He is a bestseller that has topped the charts of publications such as The Washington Post and the New York Times. He was born in Jerusalem and is an Israeli author known for writing books in the genres of everything from fantasy to horror, thriller, and crime. Thank You.Mike Omer is a published author who also uses the pen names of Michael Omer and Alex Rivers. If you found this review helpful please indicate so. This is a highly suspenseful mystery that has my Very Highest Recommendation. If you have Kindle Unlimited this audio book is free to borrow with the digital version. As a child she had been a member of a previous cult he officiated over where all of his followers except Abby and two other children were locked up and burned. This is a person Abby Mullen is only too familiar with. There are a few heinous acts carried out by members of this twisted religious cult lead by a man Moses Wilcox. I would strongly suggest listening to this series in order since this is a trilogy and each book depends heavily on the previous two. This character driven mystery is the third in the Abby Mullen series. The characters and the plot are so believable and the scenario is plausible. Once I started listening to this book I had to force myself to put it down to go to sleep!! I became so engrossed in this story.

The race is on to catch a killer-even if it means braving the fiery wreckage of Abby’s past.

Someone like Abby Mullen.Īs the unlikely duo teams up on the case, it’s time for Abby to face the memories she’s always wanted to forget: the cult that defined her childhood, the fire that killed her family, and the man who engineered it all. Zoe needs insight from someone who understands the mind of a cult leader. Meanwhile, razor-sharp criminal profiler Zoe Bentley is investigating the arsons-but she’s never seen an offender like this. These murders have his fingerprints all over them.

As a young girl, she narrowly escaped a fire set by Moses Wilcox, a fanatical cult leader who’s been presumed dead for thirty years. When a series of suspicious fires leaves multiple victims dead in their homes, NYPD hostage negotiator Abby Mullen knows in her bones that the terrors of her childhood have returned. In this conclusion of the Abby Mullen Thrillers by the New York Times bestselling author of A Killer’s Mind, a hostage negotiator has one last chance to stop a deadly threat from her past.

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