{{short description|American poet}}
{{For|people named Michael Bond|Michael Bond (disambiguation)}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP primary sources|date=April 2012}} {{advert|date=November 2019}} }} '''Mike Bond''' is an American novelist, ecologist, war and human rights journalist, and poet.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/mike-bond/| title=Mike Bond|publisher=Fantastic Fiction|accessdate=2020-07-10}}</ref>
Bond has been called the "master of the existential thriller" by the BBC and "one of the 21st Century's most exciting authors" by ''The Washington Times''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Communities — Voices and Insights - Washington Times|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/communities/|access-date=2021-09-21|website=www.washingtontimes.com}}</ref> A bestselling novelist, environmental activist, advisor to U.S. and foreign governments, international energy expert, war and human rights correspondent and award-winning poet, he has lived and worked in many remote, dangerous parts of the world, including 30 countries on six continents.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mike's Bio {{!}} Mike Bond Books|url=https://mikebondbooks.com/about-mike/mikes-bio/|access-date=2021-09-21|language=en-US}}</ref>
He was a correspondent for ''The Financial Times'' newsletters in Paris from 1990 to 1998, and has reported for many newspapers including ''The Dallas Morning News'' (December 26, 1983), ''The San Francisco Chronicle'' (April 26, 1999), ''The Denver Post'' (September 13, 2001) and ''The Oregonian'' (December 8, 1983). He was the co-presenter of the PBS news program ''European Journal'' in 1987, produced by Deutsche Welle in Cologne, Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/mike-bond/| title=Mike Bond| date=4 March 2019|publisher=Books in Order|accessdate=2020-07-10}}</ref>
Bond was a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in Montana in 1982. In Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, he was head of Colorado Business Leaders for Gore and a spokesman in several western states (Colorado, Utah, and Oregon) for Gore environmental positions.
Bond was project manager of several Wild and Scenic River and National Wildlife Refuge master plans, worked to protect the Allagash Wilderness Waterway in Maine, helped create Montana's Lee Metcalf Wilderness and California's Golden Gate National Recreation Area; fought elephant poaching in Africa, managed the NASA/AIA project to design part of the orbiting space station and helped write the Colorado Wolf Management Plan. A former presenter of the PBS new program ''European Journal'', he was also Paris energy correspondent for ''The Financial Times''.
As a human rights journalist, Bond has covered death squads and military dictatorships in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. He has also written widely on environmental issues including elephant slaughter and species decline in Africa, worldwide habitat loss, whales, wolves, seals and many other endangered species, renewable energy and climate change.
Also the former CEO of an international energy company, he has been an advisor to more than 70 of the world's largest energy companies and led the 28-nation task force that united the former Soviet Union's electricity grid with Western Europe's, and has written many studies on climate change, renewable energy and utility siting and operation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hawaiibookandmusicfestival.com/mike-bond-1| title=Mike Bond|publisher=Books of Hawaii|accessdate=2020-07-10}}</ref>
Bond now works in environmental campaigns worldwide and is a leader in the fight against industrial wind turbines and their desecration of our last natural areas. He has written and spoken internationally on the failure of wind projects to lower greenhouse gas emissions or fossil fuel use, and on their devastating environmental, social and fiscal impacts.
''Kirkus'' called Bond's book, ''House of Jaguar'' a "high-octane story rife with action, from U.S. streets to Guatemalan jungles".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mike-bond/house-of-jaguar/|title=HOUSE OF JAGUAR {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}</ref> Bond bases his works on his own experiences in war zones, revolutions and dangerous regions in many foreign countries during his years as a journalist. He has more recently{{when|date=March 2021}} worked on international problems relating to Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, the subject of one of his latest novels, ''Assassins''.
== Bibliography == * 1985 ''Fire Like The Sun'' (St. Martin's/Marek, New York) * 1990 ''The Insider's Guide to Kenya'' (CFW Publications, Hong Kong), nonfiction * 1992 ''The Insider's Guide to Mexico'' (CFW Publications, Hong Kong), nonfiction * 1992 ''The Ivory Hunters'' (Hodder Headline, London) * 1993 ''Night of the Dead'' (Hodder Headline, London) * 1994 ''Crossfire'' (Hodder Headline, London) * 2013 ''The Last Savanna'' (Mandevilla Press, Connecticut) * 2013 ''House of Jaguar'' (Mandevilla Press, Connecticut) * 2014 ''Holy War'' (Mandevilla Press, Connecticut) * 2014 ''Tibetan Cross'' (Mandevilla Press, Connecticut) * 2016 ''Assassins'' (Mandevilla Press, Connecticut) * 2017 ''Snow'' (Mandevilla Press, Connecticut) * 2018 ''The Drum That Beats Within US'' (Big City Press, New York) * 2022 ''Joy'' (Big City Press, New York)
=== Pono Hawkins series === * 2012 ''Saving Paradise'' (Mandevilla Press, Connecticut) * 2015 ''Killing Maine'' (Mandevilla Press, Connecticut) * 2019 ''Goodbye Paris'' (Big City Press, New York)
=== America trilogy === * 2021 ''America'' (Big City Press, New York) * 2021 ''Freedom'' (Big City Press, New York) * 2022 ''Revolution'' (Big City Press, New York)
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{official website|MikeBondBooks.com}}
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