Greg DiBiase is an American lawyer and writer. In his legal practice, he’s focused on the future, developing internet policy for the international domain name system. The rest of the time, he’s focused on the past, with a particular interest in the rise of humanity’s earliest cities.

Greg’s debut novel, The Flood, is a mystery set in the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, a place generally recognized as the first true city in history and the birthplace of writing. In the book, Uruk’s growing supremacy over Sumer is threatened when its main levee collapses and a flood destroys a central Ziggurat and its intricate system of canals. The chief scribe of Uruk’s military leader does not believe the temple’s claim that the flood was caused by the gods alone and vows to uncover the truth. As this mystery unfolds, the world of the early Bronze Age, in which emerging cities produce an explosion of new technology and culture, is illuminated. The foundations of our modern society are explored through a fast-paced and engaging mystery.

This novel in the first in a series that will move from the world’s first city, Uruk, to the world’s first empire, the Akkadian Empire of Sargon the Great.

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