In Deep: A thriller romance set in Latin America

Finalist for best thriller in Readers’ Favorite Annual International Award Contest

Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Award.

＂Here is a seductive expatriate’s tale, brimming with intrigue, politics, and humor.＂ --Jake Halpern, author of Welcome to the New World, a New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner

When American expat journalist Steve Collins sets off for the middle of the Amazon Jungle to cover a plane crash with a U.S senator aboard, he has no idea how his life is about to change. The Peruvian military is claiming the Shining Path rebel insurgency launched a missile attack on the aircraft, and the U.S. embassy is backing the military’s claim. Steve’s editor informs him that Jennifer Strand, a gorgeous, spunky young journalist embedded with the U.S. Embassy, will be accompanying him to the crash site.

Although wide apart in their political views, they manage to set aside their differences as they attempt to unravel the mystery behind the senator’s death. Their investigation places them at the heart of the conflict between the rebels and the Peruvian government. The shocking truths they discover take them on an adventure that transforms their perceptions of the world and of themselves.

Most of his adult life, Michael Segedy has lived outside of the United States (Peru, Morocco, Israel, and Taiwan) writing and teaching high school literature and technology. He has published numerous academic articles about literature and writing, and In 1985, Gwendolyn Brooks, poet laureate of Illinois, presented him with Virginia English Bulletin’s first place writing award. In Deep is his second novel. The second edition of Hampton Road, his first novel, published in 2004, went Indie press in August this year. Michael and his family currently live in Lima, Peru, and with his family’s support and encouragement he hopes soon to complete his fourth book.