J. R. Seeger

JR Seeger served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne and as a CIA officer for a total of 27 years federal service. Since his retirement, JR has written articles and book reviews in the CIA professional journal "Studies in Intelligence" and the TE Lawrence Society newsletter. He has several short stories available on Medium.com. MIKE4 was his first novel and the first in a seven part series about a family who have served in the special operations and intelligence community from World War II to the present. This series follows the lives of Sue O'Connell, a special operations wounded warrior, and her mother, Barbara O'Connell, who is a retired CIA case officer. Their adventures take them to Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. In 2020, JR has started a new series focusing on the early twentieth century competition among the great European powers. Part fantasy, part thriller, the first book, “A school for the Great Game,” looks at the first decade of the last century through the eyes of two young adults. There are now three books in the series taking two competing families into World War I. Their competition parallels espionage and subversion fostered by the British and the German Empires fought on the battlefields of the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. These books are illustrated by JR's wife, Lise Spargo. JR and Lise split their time between Western New York and New Mexico.