Born in South Africa, Neville Frankel immi­grat­ed to Boston when he was 14. After grad­u­at­ing from Dart­mouth Col­lege, he pur­sued doc­tor­al work in Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. While in Cana­da, he wrote The Third Pow­er, a well-reviewed polit­i­cal thriller. When he’s not writ­ing, Frankel works as a finan­cial plan­ner in the Boston Area.