Chris DiGiuseppi

Chris is originally from Cleveland, Ohio but moved to St. Peters, Missouri in 1976 where he grew up. At an early age he worked in geological engineering as a technician and then for Trans World Airlines as an agent in their marketing division.

In 1991, after graduating from the police academy, he had worked an armed security post in a government housing project in St. Louis, Missouri and eventually landed a job with the Lake Saint Louis Police Department in the summer of 1992. Throughout his career he’s held numerous position including the Department’s DARE officer, public relations officer, first line supervisor and shift commander, operations commander and currently Assistant Chief of Police. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s School of Police Staff and Command, 152nd session and a graduate of the FBI National Academy 215th session where he trained with their legal staff, communications division and behavioral science unit in various aspects of law enforcement including leadership, forensics and criminal investigations.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in human resource management and a Masters of Business Administration from Lindenwood University.

Chris is an award winning author of "The Light Bringer", a St. Louis area best seller. He and co-author, Mike Force began writing "The Light Bringer" in 2007 utilizing their real life experiences they had encountered over their lifetimes. The "Light Bringer was published by HCI Books and released on July 1st 2011 where it was on the local best sellers list numerous times. "The Light Bringer" finished 9th overall in 2011 on the St. Louis Best Sellers List even though the book had only been released for 6 months out of the entire year.

"The Light Bringer" was one of the winners of the Missouri Writers' Guild 2012 President's Contest for the Show Me Best Book Award. It additionally was one of the winners of the 2012 Up Authors Contest for Best Title and has been nominated for The Distinguished Literary Achievement Award from the Missouri Humanities Council.

In 2012 Undergo Entertainment acquired the Development rights to The Light Bringer and is currently scripting a screenplay for the pilot episode of a television series where Chris and Mike are working with Hollywood director and writer Darin Beckstead on the project - www.undergoent.com.

The second book in the series, "The Fallen (The Light Bringer Book 2)" was released on February 5, 2013 where it quickly made #1 on the St. Louis Best Sellers List.

The Risen, the third and final book in the series was released in May of 2015.

You can see more about Chris at https://www.facebook.com/cdigiuseppi/?ref=bookmarks