David Madsen is the author of Black Plume: the Suppressed Memoirs of Edgar Allan Poe, U.S.S.A, a speculative mystery set in the American-occupied Soviet Union, which was a Book of the Month Club selection and Vodoun, a thriller that blends voodoo with American politics and the Haitian revolution.

He is also a produced screenwriter, with credits that include Copycat, the Warner Brothers thriller starring Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter.

A third generation Californian, he grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the main settings for his new novel, Under a Secret Sky.  While researching Secret Sky, he traveled to the back gate of Area 51.  Although he didn’t gain admittance, his license plate is no doubt in a secret data base, which he accepts as a badge of honor.