Alex DeMille is a filmmaker and novelist. He grew up on Long Island and received a BA from Yale University and an MFA in film directing from UCLA. His films have played to acclaim at festivals worldwide, and he has been awarded a number of fellowships for his screenplays. The Deserter and Blood Lines, his first two novels cowritten with his father, Nelson DeMille, were instant New York Times bestsellers. Their final collaboration, The Tin Men, will be published by Simon & Schuster this Fall. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.