Carl Douglass, Neurosurgeon turned Author, writes with gripping realism stemming from his experience as a general surgeon during the unpleasantness in Viet Nam including exposure to the murderous CIA Phoenix Program, about which he wrote a scholarly novel entitled THE LAST PHOENIX. Douglass is a retired neurosurgeon, a world traveler, and a humanitarian who has visited the parts of the world about which he writes. He was reared in a small mountain town in the west, then entered into competition with some of the best talents and brains in the country as he pursued his life's dream. He knows the underbelly of many countries and about the courage and dignity of people ruled by despots and has made for himself a research career trying to understand that part of the world. The Sybil series is a product of his imagination, but it has a generous dollop of practical reality woven into it. Douglass lives with his wife of fifty years in the quiet enjoyment of their mountain home.