John Amos

John Amos, Ph.D., J.D. is the author of five novels that span historical mystery, literary fiction, and the uncharted territory between the two, including The Student (2022), and his Petrie & Pettigrew series — The Cleopatra Caper (2023), The Case of the Stolen Goddess (2024), and The Bones of the Apostle (2024) — which follows two brilliant detectives through the archaeology, intrigue, and buried secrets of Egypt, Syria, and the ancient world. His latest novel, The Call of the Bugle (2026), is a departure in form but not in spirit: a sweeping historical novel set against the Charge of the Light Brigade, praised as "Pulitzer Prize material" and compared to Wuthering Heights and Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Reason Why.

A practicing attorney and university professor with twenty-five years in the classroom, Amos brings rare intellectual depth to popular fiction. He has lived and worked extensively in the Middle East — Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, and Turkey — and that immersion in culture, language, and history gives his novels an authenticity that few writers can match. His academic publications span law, history, and Middle Eastern studies.

John Amos writes for readers who want to be entertained and to learn something true about the world.