Phil Pearl

Phil Pearl was born and educated in England before going to the Middle East to work as an oilfield surveyor. There, he worked mostly in the UAE and Iran as well as in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and on a vacation he bought a classic E-Type Jaguar sports car in the U.K. and drove it across Europe, through Turkey, and down to a Southern Iran port where it was shipped across the gulf to Dubai. He moved to the U.S. and became a computer programmer, and he worked for the FBI on a nationwide year-long undercover sting that used software he had written, called "Operation Disconnect". Later he specialized in building web sites, doing 5 contracts with Microsoft, including 2 at Microsoft Research. After writing a technical book on web site development, he then turned to novels. He's written 7 books including the web site book, 3 novels, "Killing Time", "Cyber Insecurity", and "Fake News", and 3 kids books, "The Great Disappearing Sock Puppet Master Mystery", "Words Worth Writing", and "Rainbow Mail".