Author Bio
• Birth—August 21, 1953
• Where—Newark, New Jersey, USA
• Education—M.A., US Army Russian Institute, Garmisch, Germany
• Currently—Tampa, Florida
Mitchel Fidel has traveled to nearly all parts of the world, experiencing a full immersion in foreign languages and cultures. He was employed at the Multiversity for Personal Development in India, and his teaching experience has ranged from the Defense Department’s National Cryptologic School to the Nizhoni School for Global Consciousness in Santa Fe.
With writing experience behind him that included Top Secret intelligence analysis for the National Security Agency and developmental work for two Hollywood internet firms, he undertook the Great Puzzle of first century A.D. spirituality, because so much information in that regard had come to light that it was practically begging to be put into the entertaining configuration of a novel. He lives in Tampa, where he surveys an Egyptic scene of palm trees, lotuses, ibises, and alligators, all from a balcony that is visited by falcons.
Fidel has been to all of the locales that form the backdrop to the Mysterium series, and has studied the relevant historical materials not for years but for decades, making him uniquely qualified to carry out such a project. His colorful lifetime travelogue is available on Facebook (Mitchel Fidel 1), and he welcomes discussion of the innately controversial material presented in his books, on Facebook, on the Goodreads author site "Mitchel Fidel", on Twitter @gnostalogue, and on the website mitchelfidel.com. The Mysterium series will continue with Mysterium II Greece, Mysterium III Asia, Mysterium IV Judea, and Mysterium V Egypt and Beyond.
Narrator bio – Phillip J. Mather
Phillip J Mather, long-time USA resident yet steadfastly retaining his olde worlde Britishness and accent resides on Dysfunctional Farm in South Texas with his delightful American wife and a motley herd of largely adopted / rescued animals, including donkeys, ducks, geese, guinea fowl etc. Currently the semi-resident alligator [Algernon] is decimating the catfish population. Agnes [Algernon’s predecessor] was successfully wrangled and now lives in a proper wild life rescue facility, where Algernon will be sent as soon as he is large enough to warrant capture.
Phillip has been providing his voice to commercials, animations, video games, eLearning projects from his purpose-built studio for 10+ years, and has enjoyed producing audiobooks for the past two years. He is an "Audible Approved" narrator and specializes in historical non-fiction, biography, and business & personal development titles.
"It's not just that Mr. Mather is British; he is ultra-British—by turns dramatic, jovial, sinister, soothing, and matter-of-fact. He is a bit Olivier, a bit Rathbone, a bit Attenborough, with touches of Sebastian Cabot, Patrick Stewart, and Darth Vader in the mix."
(Author bios from the publisher.)