Ron Argo is an award-winning journalist and a decorated Vietnam veteran. His first novel, Year of the Monkey, was hailed as one of the seminal novels of the Vietnam war, ranking him alongside America’s best war novelists— Mailer, Stephen Crane, Jones, and Dos Passos. His next two novels are Ray Myers thrillers: The Courage to Kill and Baby Love. Argo's historical novel, The Sum of His Worth, tells the story of a teenage boy and a doctor’s struggle against the KKK in 1960s Alabama. See ronargo.com.

Ron Terpening is the author of Storm Track (highly recom-mended by Library Journal for its "breath-taking pace"), League of Shadows (called "a crackling good story" by Steve Berry, "a smart, suspenseful novel" by Thomas Perry, and a "fabulously written, masterful espionage thriller" by Brad Thor), Tropic of Fear ("an exciting thrill ride from first page to last" – Midwest Book Review), Nine Days in October (praised by Library Journal for its "gripping suspense"), Cloud Cover, as well as two young-adult novels, In Light’s Delay and The Turning, and the Artie Crenshaw trilogy, The Hornets' Nest of Our Desires. See ronterpening.com.