The Author
A Michigan mortgage founder who spent twenty-seven years building a family business — and then finally wrote the Cold War novel he had been carrying since boyhood.
Bruce & Kimberly Meek
Beginnings
Bruce Cleveland Meek was raised by a father who taught and lived a code — morality, ethics, discipline. Paul Burton Meek was a teacher, a minister, a builder and a master's degree holder who had served in the U.S. Army. He and Bruce's mother never had much, but what they gave their children was, in Bruce's words, priceless.
Reading came early and never left: Alistair MacLean above all, then Louis L'Amour, Tom Clancy, Brad Thor, Ken Follett. The habit of a lifetime turned, eventually, into a manuscript.
Service runs through the family, from the Revolutionary War forward. Most recently, Bruce and Kimberly's youngest son Kameron completed his contract with the United States Marine Corps.
Twenty-seven years at Genisys
Bruce and his wife Kimberly founded Genisys Mortgage and built it the old-fashioned way: one family at a time, on referrals and repeat business. Nearly three decades later it remains a family company.
Kimberly is, by Bruce's own account, his better half — and the editor he trusts most, particularly on the romantic passages, where she is eminently more qualified.
Becoming a novelist
Archangel began with a fascination for the Cold War and finished as something more personal. While researching central Nevada, Bruce found a thread leading back to his own father's Army service — and to Operation Desert Rock. He tells that story plainly in an author's note at the end of the novel.
His aim is straightforward: make Cold War history relevant and interesting for readers today, keep the tradecraft honest, and never forget the people who paid for that war in ways their families only learned about later.