Charles W. Sasser has been a full-time freelance writer/journalist/photographer since 1979. He is a veteran of both the U.S. Navy (journalist) and U.S. Army (Special Forces, the Green Berets), a combat veteran, and former combat correspondent wounded in action. He also served fourteen years as a police officer (in Miami, Florida, and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was a homicide detective). He has taught at universities, lectured nationwide, and traveled extensively throughout the world. His bio is included in Who's Who In America and Who's Who In The World. In 1985-86, he was a finalist competing to fly into space with NASA's Journalist In Space Project. He is author of nearly 50 published books, reprinted in several different languages, including Spanish, French, German, Russian, and Chinese, and has published more than 2,500 magazine articles and short stories. He lives and writes on a ranch near Chouteau, Oklahoma, with wife Donna Sue, where he rears and trains registered quarter horses.