Leighton L SmithThe author of Too Close to Call is Leighton Lloyd Smith. Mr. Smith is a senior systems engineer and ergonomist and has been writing for more than 40 years. He is the author of more than 1,000 technical publications ranging from by-laws, business plans, technical proposals and reports, to safety plans, risk management plans, and long-range plans. Recently, Mr. Smith has taken up free-lance writing. He has created the Ian Learns . . . children's book series. In addition to Too Close to Call, he has authored four other novels and is in work on a fifth. He has also authored four non-fiction works. Mr. Smith's "signature" as an author is that his novels all have four-word titles and that these four words occur only once in each novel, as the last four words. Read More Read Less