Glenn Meade is an Irish author. He was born in Finglas, Dublin. He has written fiction, plays, and screenplays. He has lectured on writing in the USA, and Europe.

Career

In the late 1980s Meade wrote and directed a number of his own plays for the Strand Theatre in Dublin. He originally worked as a pilot trainer for

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, before becoming a journalist for ''

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'' newspapers. In 1994, he released his first novel, ''Brandenburg'', which garnered much critical acclaim. Meade now writes full-time. His books have been translated into 29 languages, including

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. His work ''The Second Messiah'' was published in English in summer 2011, by Simon & Schuster in New York. Meade divides his time between Ireland, and on occasion, the USA. He was one of the Irish delegates at the European Writers Conference in

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in 2010.

Bibliography

Fiction

* ''Brandenburg'' (1994) * '' Snow Wolf'' (1996) * ''The Sands of Sakkara'' (1999) * ''Resurrection Day'' (2002) * ''Web of Deceit'' (2004) * ''The Devil's Disciple'' (2006) * ''The Second Messiah'' (2011) * ''Seconds to Disaster'' (2012, with Ray Rohan) * ''The Romanov Conspiracy'' (2012) * ''The Last Witness'' (2014) * ''Unquiet Ghosts'' (2017)

References

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