Barry Broad

Barry Broad was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1957. An early fan of the hard boiled school of detective fiction, by the time he was sixteen, he was wandering around the streets of southern California looking for the places mentioned in Raymond Chandler novels. He studied history in college, spending part of his education at Cambridge University in England. Returning to the US, he decided to go to law school. He became a labor lawyer, first working for the Teamsters and then other unions, and in the mix, getting to know everyone from dockworkers to truck drivers, from professional jockeys to cops. With a lifetime of stories under his belt, he began his first novel "Eve of Destruction," a gritty, realistic look at the high stakes contest between between the West and Iran over nuclear weapons, terrorism, and radical Islam.

Broad's second novel, "Requiem for the Damned," is a sequel to "Eve of Destruction." Mossad Assassin Hannah Parras and CIA special services operative Ivana Svilanovic, are back--as are a host of new spies--converging on slave labor camp in the heart of Africa. The plot is fast moving, complex, and gripping. It is a look into the reality of today's world, where nations compete for domination of the world's resources: oil, strategic metals, and, above all, human beings.

In his third novel, "Dark Sea Rising," which he wrote with co-author, Drew Mendelson, ventures into the science fiction. "Dark Sea Rising" is a fast-paced "first encounter" story of a collision of two civilizations, one human and one "alien." But the aliens live right here on planet Earth in the deepest part of Pacific Ocean. Barry and Drew wrote the book in two literary voices, with Barry writing the story of the humans and Drew writing from the perspective of the "He'e," as this undersea species calls themselves. "Dark Sea Rising" answers one age-old question--are we alone--only to pose another: what if we aren't the smartest creatures inhabiting this planet?

Broad lives in Sacramento, California.