Brooks YeagerBrooks Yeager's first novel, Chilly Winds, won the American fiction award for best adventure novel in 2021. Before trying his hand at fiction, Brooks campaigned for wildlife and wilderness, negotiated global environmental agreements at the State Depatment, and consulted on environmental issues with the World Bank and the Arctic Council. His conservation career took him all over the world, from Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and the Russian Far East. These days Brooks and his wife Cindy Shogan enjoy life on the island of Chincoteague, on the Atlantic coast of Virginia. When he's not writing, he likes to play guitar, watch birds, read philosophy and obscure books of history, and listen to all kinds of music. Read More Read Less