Mike Wendland

Mike Wendland is an 18-time Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than forty years in broadcast and print. He covered world leaders, wars and consumer affairs, and spent much of his career on the slow investigative reporting that newsrooms stopped paying for.

The Tenth of Av is his first novel and the first of five books in The Last Reporter series. It began in 1985 on a hillside between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, where he was working as a television reporter. It took him forty years to find the way in. The series follows Detroit television reporter Ray Mercer into Jerusalem in the last years before Rome destroyed it.

Mike is also the author of 30 RV travel guides. He lives in southwest Michigan with his wife, Jennifer, and writes about the reporting life as The Last Reporter on Substack.