The author of fifteen other novels and nonfiction books, Michael Walsh was the classical music critic and foreign correspondent for Time magazine, for which he covered the end of the Cold War from Berlin and Moscow. In 2004, he received an American Book Award for his gangster novel And All the Saints. His most recent works, The Devil’s Pleasure Palace and The Fiery Angel, examine the enemies, heroes, triumphs, and struggles of Western civilization from ancient Greece and Rome to the present.
