Michael Balter is an award-winning author and a talented and witty storyteller. His debut novel, Chasing Money, won multiple awards including the 2023 Best Indie Book Award for Crime Thrillers, the 2024 Feathered Quill Award for Best Mystery/Thriller, and the 2024 Crime Thriller of the Year Award from BestThrillers.com.
Born in Berlin, Michael grew up in a bombed-out building. When the Berlin Wall went up, his family fled to Ottawa and then moved to Detroit at the height of the 1967 riots. During the Vietnam War, Michael served as an air traffic controller at the Udorn Air Force base in Thailand.
Michael earned an aerospace engineering degree and then joined Intel Corporation, entering Silicon Valley on the ground floor and building a successful career in sales and marketing. Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, Michael left for a voice recognition start-up in 1998. Over the next twenty years, he created and launched multiple business ventures in Oregon ranging from an art company to a private equity firm.
One of his business partners was kidnapped by a Russian mobster, inspiring a portion of the plot of Chasing Money. Inspiration for the sequel sprang from a business deal Michael made with the Vatican in 2004, coincidentally the same year one of the biggest mafia wars in Italy’s history broke out. The Vatican Deal will be published in May 2025.
Michael now lives in Charlevoix, Michigan. He is working on the third book in the Marty and Bo thriller series. Learn more at mbalter.com
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List of books:
PRAISE FOR CHASING MONEY
PRAISE FOR THE VATICAN DEAL
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