Joseph Michael DeGross

Joseph Michael DeGross lives and writes in East Tennessee in the winter and spring, Adirondack Park, and Maine, in the summer, and Rocky Mountain country in the fall. He is a semiretired physician, an avid upland bird hunter, and a fly fisherman. He writes fiction. His novel, UNDERTOW, is available in paperback on Amazon and via the author's website at josephmichaeldegross.com. UNDERTOW is the first novel in a trilogy about the fictional life of Michael Ross, a soldier, physician, and CIA assassin. UNDERTOW blends the character complexity, word rhythms and sentence style of literary fiction, with powerful cinematic action scenes more common to mainstream fiction. UNDERTOW is available in paperback, and e-book through Kindle. THE WIND, THE SEA, and STEADY CURRENTS, the second novel in the Michael Ross series, will be available in 2014. THE ALIBI, a collection of DeGross's short stories was published in 2012. It is available on Amazon as both paperback and e-book. DeGross's short stories have appeared in literary journals and an anthology called LITERARY LUNCH,which is also available at Amazon.