George Mastras

George Mastras is a novelist, an award winning screenwriter, and a travel fanatic.

His acclaimed debut novel, "Fidali's Way," about an American wrongfully arrested for murder in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan who escapes the police on foot over the treacherous Himalayas, has been lauded by critics as a "brilliantly told" and "stirring first novel" with an "odyssey-like story [that] grips" (Publisher's Weekly and Toronto Sun). Published by Scribner in 2009 and released in translation internationally, "Fidali's Way" was inspired by Mastras's extensive travels through the remote regions comprising the epicenter of today's War on Terror.

Mastras also wrote, produced, and directed for the Emmy-award winning drama "Breaking Bad." He was awarded an Emmy in 2013 for his work on Breaking Bad, won the PEN USA Literary Award for Best Teleplay in 2009, won two Writer's Guild Awards, and was nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award. He was awarded the competitive ABC/Disney Writing Fellowship in 2005. Before writing professionally, he was a trial lawyer for ten years in Los Angeles and New York, a criminal investigator for the public defender's office, and worked as a counselor at a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility.