Michael J CooperMICHAEL J. COOPER emigrated to Israel in 1966 and lived in Jerusalem during the last year the city was divided between Israel and Jordan. Recently retired after a forty-year career as a pediatric cardiologist on faculty at UCSF Medical Center, he retrns to Israel/Palestine to volunteer his services to children who lack adequate access to care. Other than The Rabbi's Knight, Cooper is also the author of a series of sequels: Wages of Empire and Crossroads of Empire, both set at the start of WW1, and Foxes in the Vineyard, set in 1948. All of his novels are linked together by the Sinclair/St. Clair blood line, as well as by Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Cooper and his wife live in Northern California with a neurotic but lovable golden retriever and a spoiled rotten cat. Three adult children occasionally drop by. Read More Read Less