Geoffrey M. Cooper

Geoffrey M. Cooper is an award-winning author of medical thrillers and a 2023 Maine Literary Award Finalist in Crime Fiction. His experience as a former cancer researcher and scientific administrator, having held positions at Harvard Medical School and Boston University as professor, department chair, and associate dean, now provides extensive background for his novels. His newest work, The Third Man, is the seventh book in the Brad Parker and Karen Richmond series. A German spy lands in Maine in 1944, connects with another agent, and launches a plot to use the developing science of DNA research to weaponize genetic engineering. The plot continues to the present day, when new genomic technologies enable programmed modification of the human genome. And Professor Brad Parker and Maine State Police Lieutenant Karen Richmond find themselves struggling to stop the creation of a new class of neo-Nazi warriors.

Cooper lives and writes in Ogunquit, Maine.