About the Author

Ward R. Anderson graduated with a B.A. in History from Bucknell University and promptly married Kathy, his college sweetheart. As a U.S. Navy carrier-based fighter/attack pilot, deployments to the Western Pacific and then along NATO borders of the Iron Curtain furthered his understanding of the vulnerability of countries adjacent to Russia. The 2014 invasion of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea compelled him to write a novel that presents the excesses of Communist and Nazi regimes and the threat from a relentless Vladimir Putin. Anderson is an avid reader and researcher who has difficulty passing by a museum. A photographer, he is a former Director of the Maryland Federation of Art. He and Kathy race their sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay and cruise their powerboat, Skylark, to Maine and Canada.