Allan Topol is the nation­al best­selling author of sev­en nov­els of inter­na­tion­al intrigue, most of which involve Israel and the Mid­dle East. He is a grad­u­ate of Carnegie Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy and Yale Law School. A part­ner in a major Wash­ing­ton law firm, he has trav­eled exten­sive­ly, includ­ing 13 trips to Israel, research­ing dra­mat­ic loca­tions. His nov­els have been trans­lat­ed into Chi­nese, Japan­ese, Por­tuguese, and Hebrew.