Has been a writer for more than 40 years.  His work includes over a thousand articles, reviews, essays and columns for a wide variety of publications including some with international circulation.  He has also written for the Encyclopaedia Britannica  (which is where he first met Belle Boyd) and has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Fiction  from the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa.  In recent years he has moved away from Journalism towards his roots in Fiction and Drama (he was in theatre before he started writing).  He has been listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World since 1999.  He served during the Vietnam War in the U.S. Army Security Agency, in Vietnam and Frankfurt, Germany and is a long time member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and the National Military Intelligence Association.  He is also a member of the Military Writer's Society of America.   

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