Carl Douglass--retired neurosurgeon turned author, who writes with gripping realism--has written fourteen novels including the present trilogy. He has utilized his extensive life's experience and pattern of prodigious research to the best advantage of his readers. His personal life is spent in the tranquility of his mountain west home with his best friend and wife away from the tumult of his professional and military life. He writes for pleasure and hopes that his books will be received and enjoyed for the same reason.