Author2Author with Michael Niemann

Bill welcomes suspense author Michael Niemann to the show. Michael  has long been interested in the sites where ordinary people’s lives and global processes intersect. He’s shared umqombothi with shack dwellers outside Cape Town, interviewed Morgan Tsvangirai, former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, when he was still a trade union leader, and seen Eduardo Mondlane’s dorm room at Northwestern University, faithfully recreated at the Museum of the Revolution in Maputo.

He has published four thrillers featuring UN investigator Valentin Vermeulen: Legitimate Business, Illicit Trade, llegal Holdings, and, most recently, No Right Way. Illegal Holdings won the 2019 Silver Falchion Award for Best Thriller at Killer Nashville. His short stories have appeared in Vengeance, the 2012 Mystery Writers of America anthology edited by Lee Child, and Mysterical-E. On the non-fiction side, he is the author of A Spatial Approach to Regionalism in the Global Economy.