A. G. Hayes studied television writing at UCLA. He has published short fiction, including Cover Up, Not a Penny Pincher, Home, Payment in Full, Small Wonder and Guided through a Mine Field, and written scripts for CBS TV and other television production companies. He lives in the Sierra Nevada Foothills and spends his time writing and traveling to nearly every part of the world. He has used personal experiences gained during service with the British intelligence in Eastern Europe and the Middle East to enrich the characters of his protagonist teams. He is the multi-award-winning author of Who's Killing All the Lawyers (Savant 2011), The Judas List (Savant 2012), Imminent Danger (Savant 2013) and The Chemical Factor (Savant 2015). Raymond Gaynor is the pen-name of a multi-award-winning, reclusive writer-artist-photographer-videographer, who, in his own words, "lives and breathes" San Francisco. He co-authored with William Maltese on the Tripler and Clarke gay political thriller, Total Meltdown (Borgo/Wildside 2011) and is the author of numerous fiction and non-fiction works published under a number of pseudonyms.