Patrick Oster, now writing fiction full time, was a managing editor at Bloomberg News and editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal. In his spare time he still writes obituaries of rich or famous people. He has worked as a journalist for Business Week and the Washington Post in Europe, for the Knight Ridder newspaper chain in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America and covered the White House, State Department, the Supreme Court and the CIA as Washington Bureau Chief of The Chicago Sun-Times. He is the author of the nonfiction book, "The Mexicans," a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection. His award-winning comic thriller "The Commuter" was published by the Argo Navis imprint of Perseus Books. He also wrote the spy thriller "The German Club" and the cyber-thriller "The Hacker Chronicles." His also wrote the award winning murder mystery, "The Amazon Detective Agency," His fifth novel is the prize-winning "The Obituary Writer," another murder mystery. His sixth novel "The Sleeper List, was named best espionage thriller of 2022 by the Readers Favorite book site judges. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers. His website has further information on his books and career. www.patrickoster.com
