The Silent Hunt Paperback - 2011

The author brings over fourteen years of unique government experience to his premier novel. He started as a U.S. Army officer with two tours in Bosnia. During the Army's initial deployment to Bosnia, he led a surveillance platoon that tracked the number two war criminal in the Balkans and kept the Serbs' most dangerous units from reigniting the war. In 1999, the author joined the CIA as a military analyst and was immediately put to work on the Agency's premier analytical unit, the Balkan Task Force. For the next three years he was part of a small team that tracked Balkan insurgent groups in minute detail, wrote daily intelligence analysis for the White House and senior Washington policy makers, and forward deployed to the Balkans to aid CIA operations officers, the U.S. military, and NATO allies in turning off several brewing Balkan crises. The author received several citations for critical warning memos to senior policy makers and for his role in averting new Balkan wars. Shortly before 9/11, the author became a CIA operations officer. After the attacks he was deployed across the U.S., Canada, and the Middle East to assist the FBI in piecing together it's multitude of cases related to the attacks. In 2003 he received a commendation from the Director of the FBI for his role in combating terrorism inside the U.S. In 2006 the author left CIA for the defense industry. He has a Masters Degree in Security Policy Studies from George Washington University and lives in the St. Louis area with his wife and two children.