David Edgerley Gates

David Edgerley Gates lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The author of the Placido Geist bounty hunter stories, a series of noir Westerns, he is a past nominee for the Shamus, the Edgar, and the International Thriller Writers award. His short fiction appears regularly in ALFRED HITCHCOCK and ELLERY QUEEN mystery magazines, and has been widely anthologized.

THE BONE HARVEST, set in the early days of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, is a sequel to his Cold War spy novel BLACK TRAFFIC. He is completing a trilogy of novellas: VIPER, about a KGB deception in Cold War Berlin; THE KINGDOM OF WOLVES, which takes place during the Battle of the Bulge; and THE MISFORTUNES OF OCTAVIO MEDINA, a murder mystery set in1917 New Mexico. His next book is ABSOLUTE ZERO.