JOSEPH P. DESARIO

More than twenty years after its release, Joseph P. DeSario’s second novel, Sanctuary (Doubleday), was rediscovered by Booklist in 2011. Daniel Kraus’s article, “Desperately Seeking DeSario: A Real Life Literary Mystery,” investigated the author’s decades of self-imposed absence from the publishing industry. Booklist issued a starred review recognizing Sanctuary as a “long-out-of-print jewel.” Upon the publication of DeSario’s first novel, Limbo (Doubleday), Publisher’s Weekly called the author “a magnetic 

new voice in thriller fiction.” Working with legendary former CIA and DEA agent Tom Tripodi, DeSario also co-wrote Crusade: Undercover Against the Mafia and KGB (Brassey’s). Joseph P. DeSario is a life-

long- resident of the Chicagoland area. Echo marks DeSario’s return to the world of thriller fiction.