Mike Wells is an American novelist who has lived in many parts of Europe, including Latvia, Holland, France and Cyprus. His father was Hungarian and spent much of his childhood in Moscow, and Mike grew up hearing many of his father's recollections of life in the Soviet Union.

Mike is the author of eight novels and two screenplays. He writes in a variety of genres and is popular with European readers due to his clear, simple writing style and his cross-genre, original approach. Many of his stories are set in exotic locales (In God We Trust, for example, takes place in Bulgaria, Russia, France, and Italy). His writing is known for its fast pace and rich character development.

Mike is also an accomplished university lecturer and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oxford. He currently split his time between the UK and Latvia (his wife's home country).