Avraham Azrieli, a graduate of Columbia Law School in New York City, practiced law for two decades before publishing his first novel, The Masada Complex, a best-selling political thriller. Azrieli's other novels include The Jerusalem Inception, The Jerusalem Assassin, Christmas for Joshua, The Mormon Candidate, and Thump. He is also the author of two non-fiction books, Your Lawyer on a Short Leash, and the WWII biography One Step Ahead, which inspired the musical By Wheel and by Wing. Like his protagonist, Ben Teller, Azrieli often rides his motorcycle in the mountainous forests of western Mar...