Child Finder: Revelation

Child Finder: Revelation is the highly-anticipated conclusion to the Child Finder Trilogy.  The Library Journal called the series’ first novel, Child Finder, “a compelling debut novel,” and, “a real find,” and placed it on its prestigious Summer Reads List for 2009. Both the debut novel and the trilogy’s second story, Child Finder: Resurrection, earned national level book awards.

In Child Finder: Revelation, United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations Special Agent Patrick O’Donnell faces his most challenging – and life-threatening – mission. North Korean terrorists stage a brazen attack on the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, stealing his twin daughters in the assault. The eight-year-old girls are powerful psychics with amazing extrasensory gifts, and it is clear that the North Koreans abducted them because of these abilities.

Only one man can rescue them. Patrick O’Donnell is the government’s top agent with his own psychic abilities…skills crucial to finding the Ambassador’s daughters deep inside North Korea. From the outset of the operation, O’Donnell senses there is much more about these girls that goes unspoken. Head nods. Winks. Secrets shared between his boss, the President of the United States, and the Vatican. These are all signs of a mystery to which he is not privy. One thing is made clear in abundance: he must rescue the girls and bring them back to America with an urgency he has never experienced before.

He seeks guidance and counsel in his Catholic faith, and during his recitation of the Holy Rosary, the Virgin Mary speaks to him. Her words carry as much seriousness about the rescue as his conversations with his mentor and the President. The one thing the Mother of God seems unwilling to tell him; however, is whether or not he will come back from his mission alive.

Will Agent O’Donnell be successful in rescuing the Ambassador’s daughters? If so, will he return with them to see his family again? Will he be able to unravel the intrigue between the Oval Office and the Vatican? Other than their obvious psychic abilities, what makes the twins so special that their rescue consumes Washington, DC and Rome? Perhaps O’Donnell will receive a revelation that will explain it all…and if he does, it may be something he wishes he never knew.

Michael “Mike” Angley is the critically-acclaimed author of the thriller series, The Child Finder Trilogy, which features USAF Special Agent protagonist, Patrick S. O’Donnell.  Angley describes him as a cross between 24’s Jack Bauer and 7^th Heaven’s Eric Camden.  He is a rugged, tough federal agent and counterterrorism operator, and a heart-of-gold husband and father.  When he discovers he has a hidden psychic gift, the government draws him in to a TOP SECRET community that leverages his extrasensory skills to find missing children. But each new assignment is fraught with danger and peril, and in Child Finder: Revelation, he risks his life in a suicide rescue mission deep inside North Korea.

Mike retired from the United States Air Force in 2007 following an exciting and dangerous 25-year career as a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations.  He is a seasoned criminal investigator and a counterintelligence and counterterrorism operations specialist.  Mike held thirteen assignments in his career, among which were five command tours.  In his last assignment, he was the Commander of OSI Region 8, Air Force Space Command.  One of his major responsibilities was to execute counterintelligence operations impacting space.  He’s fond of saying about those days, “If it entered or exited the Earth’s atmosphere, I had a dog in the fight!”

Angley’s experiences as an OSI Special Agent inspired his writing and led to the creation of the Child Finder Trilogy.  The trilogy has received significant praise and awards.  His debut novel, Child Finder, won the 2009 Silver Medal for Fiction from the Military Writers Society of America and garnered prestigious placement on the Library Journal’s Summer Reads List.  His second novel, Child Finder: Resurrection, earned an award in the fiction category in the 2010 annual awards contest of the Public Safety Writers Association, as well as a Silver Medal for Fiction from the MWSA.

He has an M.A. in National Security Affairs from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, and a B.A. in Criminal Justice and Psychology from King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, PA.  He is a former National Defense Fellow and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Florida International University, Miami, FL, and he is an Honor Graduate of the Defense Language Institute’s Korean language program.

Mike and Evelyn, his wife of 26 years, make their home in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  They have three children and a rambunctious beagle named Brynn.