Sam Reaves has written crime novels including the Cooper MacLeish series, the Dooley series and the stand-alones Mean Town Blues and Cold Black Earth, as well as the true crime memoir Mob Cop with Fred Pascente. As Dominic Martell he has penned a series of geopolitical thrillers featuring Pascual Rose, an ex-terrorist trying to go straight. Reaves has traveled widely in Europe and the Middle East but has lived in the Chicago area most of his life. He has worked as a teacher and a translator.