Michael Angley

About me:

Greetings and thanks for stopping by to visit my page. I am a retired USAF officer and a new author, with a three-book contract!  I am writing The Child Finder Trilogy, a suspense/thriller series inspired by the experiences I had over my 25-year USAF career.

My first story, Child Finder, debuted on June 9, 2009, is available on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and it is the recipient of the Silver Medal for Fiction in the 2009 Military Writers Society of America's Annual Awards program!

It has already received some great reviews:

"This compelling debut novel, the first in a trilogy, features a memorable protagonist who is a combination of devoted father and mystic. For fans of supernatural thrillers and those who enjoy the TV show Medium, this is a real find. The author is a retired U.S. Air Force agent whose real-life experiences inspired this novel."

            ------Library Journal

It follows the adventures of an Air Force Special Agent, Major Patrick O'Donnell, as he discovers he has a unique psychic gift that permits him to find abducted children. I wrote the story because it had been in my head for many years, nagging away at me.  I finally set pen to paper in 2001, putting the first draft of the manuscript aside for several years while I continued my Air Force career catching spies, terrorists, and criminals (see below for more about me).

When I retired in 2007 I dusted it off, fell back in love with the characters, and worked to improve the plot line. I believe I have a wonderful story to tell that has trappings of my own personal experiences working in the murky, dark world of TOP SECRET government Special Access Programs.

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It is a sequel to the first, and continues the child-finding quests of Special Agent O'Donnell who now faces evil forces he never could have imagined before.

The final story in the trilogy is Child Finder: Revelation (projected for publication in December 2010). Special Agent Patrick O'Donnell will go to Korea on the most dangerous mission of his career. Children of senior U.S. government officials are being kidnapped, and only O'Donnell can decipher the clues needed to find them! What he learns about these children, and himself, involve government secrets so sensitive, that he will question his understanding of life, his faith, and his place in the universe.....

Please check out the following website to learn more about my novels: www.childfinder.us

For a more detailed biography, visit the website for my book.  In the meantime, here's a short summary:

I retired from the U.S. Air Force in September 2007 in the rank of Colonel, following a wonderful 25 year career as a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI). I'm a seasoned criminal investigator and a counterintelligence and counterterrorism specialist. Following the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, I was dispatched to command all OSI units throughout the Middle East, with responsibility for 23 countries. My teams effectively neutralized numerous terrorist threats to U.S. forces in the region, to include an imminent threat to senior Department of Defense officials. Earlier in my career, while commanding an OSI unit in northern Japan, I conducted an operation that effectively blocked a KGB agent’s efforts to steal critical U.S. technology, and thereby stymied Soviet military advances for years...