Jon Steele was born in the American Northwest in 1950 and had already lived in six states by the time he was ten years old. He considers Great Falls, Montana to be the closest thing there is to hometown. He survived twelve years of Catholic education and went on to work an assortment of legal and illegal jobs all across America before joining Independent Television News of London where he was an award-winning cameraman and editor for more than twenty years. He has traveled and worked through seventy-eight countries across six continents. War Junkie, his autobiography of a life behind the camera in some of the worst places on earth, was published in 2002 and has become a cult classic of war reportage. The Watchers is his first novel.
The Watchers by Jon Steele
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FORMAT/INFO: The Watchers is 560 pages long divided over a prologue called ‘Quietus’, four titled books, forty numbered chapters, and an Epilogue. Narration is in the third person via Marc Rochat, Katherine Taylor and Jay Harper. The Watchers is mostly self-contained, coming to a satisfying stopping point, but it’s the first book in a trilogy. The sequels are tentatively titled Angel City and The Way of Sorrows. June 9, 2011 marks the UK Har... Read More
