Joann Mead

Joann and Jim Mead's new book is Married in Moscow: A Red-hot Memoir in Cold War Times. The time is 1979 when Jim, an Englishman, and Joann, a California kid, meet. They are new teachers at the Anglo-American School in Moscow. They tell their story about life and love in the Soviet Union during perilous times, back in the USSR. The world is rapidly changing. The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan and the US and UK boycotts the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics, nixing their NBC jobs ferrying film crews. The US Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran brings a bus full of kids, the sons and daughters of diplomats and royalty, perilously close to the Iranian border. Joann is detained in a forbidden city, a Far East seaport, and Jim, the British and American Embassies must plead for her release. In the summer of 1980, they travel around the world but when they return to Moscow their big dilemma is how to get married in Moscow, when you have to? Jim and Joann get by by with a little help from their friends--the teachers, correspondents, diplomats, dissident Russians, and even the occasional spy. Joann Mead is a writer, educator, and researcher. She's lived in four countries ranging from A to Z: America (USA), London, England (UK), Moscow, Russia (back in the USSR), and Zimbabwe (Africa).She writes bio-crime and bioterror thriller novels, screenplays, short stories, magazine articles, and publications in medical journals on disasters and weapons of mass destruction. In “Designer Baby” and “Tiger Tiger”, Joann spins cautionary tales and creates frightening scenarios about the horrors of Genetic Design. Tiger Girl is a most wanted woman scientist who manipulates microbes and men. Her deadly, contagious, lab-created "Tiger Flu" is targeted at America in a sinister 9-11 style plot. Her rogue biohacker lovers create pandemic bioweapons and design Han targeted viruses. On the run in Scandinavia, she scams wealthy clients with promises of perfected and genetically enhanced "Designer Babies". Tiger Girl mutates and changes like a chameleon. But Tigers are elusive. And everyone is out to capture her--the US, Chinese, and Russian Intelligence agencies. Joann entertains with characters you will never forget--some sinister and scary, and others who are quirky and funny. Jo and Jeremy Blair, forensic science sleuths, uncover the underlying crimes. Whether tracking down international bioterrorists who create pandemic viruses and bioweapons or "Designer Baby" scammers who promise super-human CRISPR babies, they will take you on adventures that will keep you up at night thinking.