Michael Adams 
The Alley of Angels 

The Alley of Angels takes readers on a dark journey to El Salvador during the waning days of that countrys bloody civil war. Chicago writer Henry Reed and his friend and colleague photographer Jean-Michel Beaulieu are assigned to discover the fate of Robert Zorn, a high-profile pastor and celebrity rabble-rouser, whose unwelcome involvement in the war may have led to his disappearance, and possibly, his death. Reed and Beaulieus investigation finds them crossing paths with a dangerous assortment of war-weary players, including peace activists, CIA agents, death squad assassins, FMLN rebels and teenage prostitutes. In this lethal environment nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted.

About the author

Michael Adams has been a writer, photographer, speech writer and editor during a 30-year career in journalism, public relations and marketing. He has been a freelance writer for a variety of national and regional magazines and newspapers and is the author of an award-winning play, “China, ” and a travel memoir titled “Our Man in Stavropol.” He’s a journalism graduate of the University of Iowa and spent four years in the U.S. Air Force stationed in the United Kingdom. He was born in Washington, D.C., but has lived in Iowa for the past 35 years, the last 20 years in Des Moines.