Matt Rees was born in South Wales. He has covered the Middle East as a journalist for more than a decade, including six years asTime magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief. He is the author ofCain's Field: Faith, Fratricide and Fear in the Middle East. Atlantic Books published the first Omar Yussef novel,The Bethlehem Murders, in 2007, and the second,The Saladin Murders, in 2008.TheBethlehem Murders won the CWA John Creasey Dagger. See more at www.mattbeynonrees.com.