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Neal Bascomb is the author of ten award-winning, national, and international bestselling adult books, including most recently FASTER, a tale of the greatest upset in motorsports history. Before that, he wrote the New York Times bestseller on the sabotage of the German atomic bomb program THE WINTER FORTRESS. He also chronicled the search for a Nazi war criminal in HUNTING EICHMANN and the story of Roger Bannister's four-minute-mile in THE PERFECT MILE. His work has won awards, been optioned for film and featured in documentaries, has ranked on numerous best-book-of-the-year lists, and has been translated in over a dozen languages. He is also a critically acclaimed young adult writer. His book NAZI HUNTERS (Scholastic, 2013) won the YALSA Non-fiction Award for young adults, as well as a number of other national and state-level awards. Also from Scholastic, SABOTAGE and THE GRAND ESCAPE were breakout hits. A former international journalist and book editor, he has also written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Philadelphia with his family.