Mark Mosely has actually served on 5 continents, in 7 wars, through 13 humanitarian emergencies, in +60 countries that shape the novel’s imperfect hero and supporting characters.
He writes from personal experience: over 25 years as a senior program officer including the Balkan’s butchery, Rwanda’s genocide, Kosovo’s refugee crisis, Haiti’s endemic poverty, Indonesia’s tsunami, Philippines’ typhoon, and South Sudan’s civil wars. The character is raw and personal for the author. Preceded by a decade as a journalist, photographer and magazine editor, Mosely writes from two and a half decades ‘in the trenches’ as a senior relief and development professional.
Mark's career includes: periodic scrapes with ultimate issues at the end of an AK47; up to his knees in a cholera outbreak; uncovering trenches of mutilated and gun riddled bodies; and running out of medicines and food in the midst of a 100,000-person refugee camp.
Mosely lives with his wife and springer spaniel in coastal Georgia, near where he started in historic Savannah – seasoned through decades of adventures that shape this story of Skye Maclain, as well as the author who birthed him from more personal experience than imagination.