Michael Casey is an attorney who has worked for the City of Chicago, the State of Illinois, and in private practice representing mayors, governors, city and state officials and agencies, and government organizations, for thirty-seven years. For several years, he had a seat at the table for all municipal legislation for the City of Chicago, from drafting to mayoral approval to passage in City Council. He has tried numerous cases before state and federal courts, and has argued before state supreme courts and federal circuit courts of appeals. He has an insider's knowledge of Chicago politics and the working of city government, which drives the intrigue and mystery of the story told in his novel In Nomine Patris. His love of the wide open hills of the Driftless region in southwestern Wisconsin offered an outsider's perspective on his insider's work, and inspired his writing about the hopes and dreams of the memorable characters who face death and love and renewal and reform and ultimately rebirth in the final courtroom scene in In Nomine Patris. Mr. Casey currently resides with his wife on the East Side of Milwaukee. His first book, Passage, was written under the pen name of Vince Hurley.