Fredrick Cooper

Fredrick Cooper, a Pacific Northwest author of action thrillers, realized he wanted to be a novelist after more than 30 years of writing engineering reports. Like the characters in his novels, he was raised in close association with the timber and fishing industries and the sea in the Pacific Northwest and Southeast Alaska. Before being a professional civil engineer, he worked as a road surveyor, longshoreman, commercial fisherman, cannery worker, and a technician in a cable television studio. He is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and the Willamette Writers. His debut novel, Riders of the Tides, received a 2013 IPPY Award for Best Regional Fiction: West-Pacific Region. His second novel, Destruction Island, was a 2014 Beverly Hills Book Award finalist in the New Fiction category and received an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Hollywood Book Awards General Fiction category. Visit his website for stories about places he been to and how they figure in his novels.