Mitchell Smith is the author of critically-acclaimed novels of suspense, including "Reprisal, Sacrifice, "and" Karma," His evocations of the natural world and of human nature, as in" Due North," earned him a devoted readership. Smith has also written a trilogy of near-future, post-apocalpytic novels which illuminate what the Earth might be like after the next Ice Age: "Snowfall, Kingdom River," and" Moonrise," Smith and his family live in Washington state.