Mike Cooper

Mike Cooper is the pseudonym of Mike Wiecek, an award-winning author best known for writing popular international thrillers. As Wiecek, he has won several awards the most prestigious of which was the nomination for the Shamus Award for his short stories and a nomination for the ITW’s nomination for “Exit Strategy”. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Cooper never wanted to be a writer from a very young age. In his younger years, he wanted to be an astronaut, a scientist, and a police officer. He was born in Boston but his family moved around a lot from Boston to New Hampshire, to Wisconsin before finally settling in Missouri.