Mike Wendland is an 18-time Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 40 years in broadcast and print news. He was an investigative reporter for The Detroit News and WDIV-TV in Detroit, a columnist for the Detroit Free Press and technology correspondent for NBC News Channel. His work has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The Tenth of Av is his first novel and Book One of a five-book thriller series set between first-century Jerusalem and today.

Mike and his wife, Jennifer, run RV Lifestyle Media, a travel media company with more than a million followers, and have logged nearly half a million miles across all 48 contiguous states. He writes The Last Reporter on Substack, about news, history, faith and the search for what really happened, and lives in southwest Michigan.