Emanuel Bergmann was born in Saarbrücken, Germany in 1972. After his high school graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to study film and journalism. He has worked for various movie studios, production companies, and independent publishers in Germany and the United States. He now makes his living teaching German, translating books, and writing articles. THE TRICK is his first novel.

Doug Cooper is the author of The Investment Club (Rare Bird, 2016) and Outside In.