Carl Addison Swanson is the award winning and best-selling author of 58 novels which include the Hush McCormick thrillers, Tug Christian mysteries, Ian Fletcher legal sagas and five stand along books. His books have sold more than 510,000 copies worldwide. Following a stint in the Navy, which included two tours of Vietnam as a NSA analyst, Swanson attended law school and spent decades with the legal departments of Combustion Engineering and the United States Treasury Department. In 1994, tired of the law, he attended graduate school to write and has been writing every day since. He is married to the infamous artist Jo Ann Miller, who also edits many of his works. Swanson lives in St. David's Bermuda along with wife and tenacious terrier, Spanky.