KIM MARTIN

KIM has spent years researching and writing, while logging time on location. Born in the South and growing up primarily in New York, New Jersey, and Nashville, Tennessee, she lived briefly in London, where she pursued her first fiction book. As the daughter of a Navy man, her interest in writing military-themed thrillers was seeded early and ultimately led to the collaboration with Hawke in the Jake Tyler series. While researching IN THE DARK OF THE SUN, she spent time with a Special Forces contingent in the Amazon on a dilapidated riverboat and trekking through the jungle. In addition to writing, she is also an accomplished editor with several books to her credit as well as a stint as Editor-in-Chief for Survival Homes & Gardens magazine, the author of numerous articles, a photographer, and graphic and web designer.

MYKEL HAWKE

With over 20 years of military experience, Hawke has made a career of doing the unthinkable, from fighting rebels and training UN peacekeepers in war-torn Africa to running a war clinic on the front lines and establishing a combat medic school in Azerbaijan, to doing combat search and rescue during the height of Colombia's drug war. It was the latter that introduced him to Kim and, ultimately, provided the background for the first Jake Tyler novel.

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