Andrew Scott JacksonAfter graduating from college and with no real direction other than wanting to learn how to sail and see the Caribbean, the author bought an open-ended ticket to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, walked the docks, and got a job as a deckhand on a 78' hodes Ketch charter boat. That experience and the people he met along the way cemented a lifelong interest in writing.He returned to the States, joined the Navy, graduated Aviation Officer Candidate School, and flew the P-3C Orion during the last Cold War with the Russians. His deployments covered the globe, including the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, Eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, and Iceland, prosecuting Russian submarines and keeping tabs on Soviet Battle Groups. He retired from the Navy in 2006.He enjoys writing about exceptional people with real flaws and dreams thrown into extraordinary situations requiring a baptism by fire to survive and succeed. Read More Read Less