G. Wayne Tilman is a full-time author who writes in whose genres he likes to read, and in which he has personal experience. Tilman has been a bank security director, deputy sheriff, security contractor, and an FBI unit chief. His baccalaureate and masters degrees in business are from a southern university. The author's heritage includes a direct ancestor who was a sheriff in the new world in 1680, the lawman who brought Desperado of song fame to justice, and a mother who was a counter intelligence operative.