Colonel Robert McCartan served twenty-eight years in the U.S.
Air Force. He amassed more than 5,000 flying hours, including 3,000
in the B-47 bomber. He flew 156 combat missions in Vietnam in the
EB-66 aircraft, most of them over North Vietnam. He taught four
years at the Air Force Academy, served as an operations staff
officer in the Pentagon, and commanded an Air Force wing. He earned
a master’s degree from the University of Denver. In 2004,
McCartan published a memoir, My Journey. This is his first
novel. Colonel McCartan resides in Arizona.