Charlie Mann has been a full-time freelance writer for more than twelve years and has six previous novels and one non-fiction book. This is his first techno thriller yet his former career was in the computer programming and networking business. He now writes from his small farm in the Fork Creek Valley below the Great Smoky Mountains. The farm is surrounded with horse, cattle, and dairy farms which allow him the peaceful surroundings to also write regular feature columns and magazine articles. He welcomes your chat online on the AOL messenger as PolarCapFive.