About Jacob Lassiter

Jacob Lassiter was born and raised in the deep South during the turbulent segregation and intense struggle for civil rights era of the 1960's. During his lifetime, he has the unique opportunity to witness some of the most socially volatile and politically unstable situations on five continents. From post-communistic Russia and Ukraine to deep in the Amazon basin, the leprosy pandemic in Nepal, and the AIDS ravaged nations of East Africa, he has witnessed human suffering, poverty, and social injustice on a scale unimaginable to most. "By the Blood of the Crescent Moon" is his debut novel and the first in the Detective John Landreith series.