The author is a North Carolinian born in 1934 who attended Duke University prior to enlisting in the U. S. Army and serving as a Russian language intelligence analyst, first at National Security Ag...показать большеThe author is a North Carolinian born in 1934 who attended Duke University prior to enlisting in the U. S. Army and serving as a Russian language intelligence analyst, first at National Security Agency then with U.S. Army Security Agency for five years in Germany. He returned to the states in 1961 and had a 35-year career as an insurance adjuster handling major property losses across the country. During his extended term in the Texas prison system for dispatching a methamphetamine dealer, he had a series of weekend issue crossword puzzles (Polymaths) published in London's FINANCIAL TIMES. It was also during this period that he met two of the characters depicted in THE FRONT MAN. He now resides in Kansas.показать меньше