Patrick Oster is the author of seven well-reviewed award-winning thrillers and murder mysteries: “The Commuter,” “The German Club,” "The Hacker Chronicles" and "The Amazon Detective Agency." His fifth novel, a murder mystery, called "The Obituary Writer," came out out in 2020. His sixth, "The Sleeper List," a spy novel came out in April of 2022. Readers Favorite gave it a gold medal as the best spy novel of 2022. "The Man Who Fell in Love With His Wife" was published in August of 2024 to numerous positive reviews. An award-winning journalist, he has covered the White House, the State Department and the CIA. He has been a foreign correspondent in Latin America and Europe, covering civil wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO and the creation of the European Union. A lawyer, he was managing editor for legal news for Bloomberg News for more than a decade and editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal before that. He is also the author of a non-fiction book, “The Mexicans: A Personal Portrait of a People,” a Book-of-the- Month-Club selection. More details about him can be found at www.patrickoster.com. He can be followed on Twitter @patrickoster or Facebook. patrickoster.novelist