Mitchell Smith is the author of critically-acclaimed novels of suspense, including Reprisal, Sacrifice, and Karma. His evocations of the natural world and of human nature, as in Due North, earned him a devoted readership. Smith has also written a trilogy of near-future, post-apocalyptic novels which illuminate what the Earth might be like after the next Ice Age: Snowfall, Kingdom River, and Moonrise. Smith and his family live in Washington state.