Sean McLachlan is an archaeologist who has excavated in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Now a full-time writer, he specializes in history, travel, and fiction. He is a two-time Kindle Scout Award winner and won the 2013 Society of American Travel Writers Award for his Iraq reportage. Sean is busy working on two fiction series: The Masked Man of Cairo (neo-pulp detective adventure) and The Berlin Murders (historical mystery). Half of Sean's time is spent on the road researching and writing. He's traveled to more than thirty countries, interviewing nomads in Somaliland, climbing to clifftop monasteries in Ethiopia, studying Crusader castles in Syria, and exploring caves in his favorite state of Missouri.