Jim Wurst

Jim Wurst is a novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He spent most of his career as a journalist writing about international affairs, reporting from the United Nations, Mexico, Europe, and southern Africa. Having been on the ground in so many off-the-road places, Jim has a unique perspective how much of the world lives, from planting trees in the mountains of Oaxaca to building nations in Africa to hunting gun runners across the globe. His fiction is filled with international intrigue, wonderous locales, and diverse casts. These traits are particularly noticeable in “Three Degrees,” the first novel in the “Tempestas” series, which focuses on the climate crisis in the 2050s. The story is an ensemble taking in a US presidential election, efforts to save orangutans in Borneo and to reforest central Africa, life on a space station after the Satellite War, and the lives of “ordinary” people trying to adapt to a rapidly devolving world. Jim lives in the global village of Brooklyn NY.