About the Author

L. Patrick Gray III (1916-2005) was acting director of the FBI at the height of the Watergate scandal, from May 1972 to April 1973. He had previously served in the Justice Department as an assistant attorney general, and was a twenty-year veteran of the U.S. Navy. Ed Gray, his son, is a naturalist writer and the founder of "Gray's Sporting Journal." He is the author of seven books and lives in Lyme, New Hampshire.