J. KINKADE

According to the bio in one of her books: "J. Kinkade is a retired intelligence officer and disabled veteran.  She has been writing fiction for nearly twenty years with The Zero Line being her first publication and the first in a series of five books exploring The McKenna Connection.

But writing wasn’t always something she wanted to do; at one time, she considered working with horses as a career. She spent a summer training Pentathlon horses at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and later served as a polo groom for actor Tommy Lee Jones. However, she got hooked on the novels of Robert Ludlum at an early age and decided fighting the Russians would make a better career choice. So she joined the Air Force and studied Russian at the Defense Language Institute. Eventually, she attended Johns Hopkins University where she majored in International Studies.

J. Kinkade lives in Maryland with her husband Scott, who is a former Marine Corps aviator, their two teenage boys, and an ever-growing number of rescued cats. The family, minus the cats, spends their time sailing and traveling and eating pho, of which they had plenty while visiting Hanoi."