'Dark Winter.' A killer is on the loose among the personnel at America's South Pole base. 'Getting Back.' An eco-thriller set in the Australian Outback in the near future. This bestseller is still available as an ebook. My first novel, 'Ice Reich,' came in 1998 and is a World War II thriller based on a real-life Nazi expedition to Antarctica. I followed that with 'Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River.' A new edition with a new introduction is planned for the fall of 2016. It was updated in 2010 to 'The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific Northwest.' It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Governor Writers Award. I published my first non-fiction book, 'The Final Forest,' in 1992. I also taught for five years at Western Washington University's Huxley College of the Environment.

I began my writing career as a newspaper reporter in 1973, eventually sharing a Pulitzer at the Seattle Times for coverage of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. All the Gage books are available in hardback, paper, and ebook versions.

Other recent titles: 'The Three Emperors,' 2014, and 'The Barbed Crown,' 2013. Meanwhile, my bestselling HarperCollins series of Ethan Gage adventures has sold into 28 languages. The other is a nonfiction coffee table-type book called 'The North Cascades: Finding Beauty and Renewal in the Wild Nearby.' The Mountaineers Books publication has more than 200 photos and illustrations and is a gorgeous read. It's a coming of age story, survival story, love story, and environmental fable. One is my first young adult/adult thriller, 'The Murder of Adam and Eve.' This time-travel environmental-evolutionary tale set in prehistoric Africa has two 16-year-olds, Nick Brynner and Eleanor Terrell, trying to save our genetic ancestors from annihilation by an alien race. I published two books in the fall of 2014. A related title to this series is 'Napoleon's Rules: Life and Career Lessons from Bonaparte.' (March, 2015.) This nonfiction examination of Napoleon's life and maxims is an inspiring and cautionary tale for leaders, entrepreneurs, officers, or anyone with ambition and curiosity.

I'm a novelist and non-fiction author of twenty-two books, the latest of which is 'The Trojan Icon,' the eighth in the series of Ethan Gage Napoleonic adventures.

The Rosetta Key by William Dietrich