C. Jack Lewis has written nine feature films, six works for television, several military training films, 12 previous novels, some 6,000 magazine articles and short stories, and 20 other books. His many jobs have included horse wrangler, investigative reporter, magazine editor and publisher, movie stuntman, structural steel worker and private detective. He served in World War II as a machine gunner and in Korea and Vietnam as a Marine Corps Combat Correspondent. He now resides in a beach house in Hawaii.