Austin S. Camacho is the author of four detective novels in the Hannibal Jones series and two novels in the Stark and O'Brien adventure series. Active in several local writers' organizations, Camacho is the current president of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Virginia Writer's Club. By day, Camacho is a public affairs specialist for the Department of Defense. For more than a decade the American Forces Network carried his radio and television news reports.