New York Times bestselling author Bob Mayer has published over 38 books ranging from military techno-thriller to political thriller to non-fiction to science fiction to romantic adventure. He has over three million books in print.

Born in the Bronx, Bob attended the Military Academy at West Point and earned a BA in psychology with honors and then served as an Infantry platoon leader, a battalion scout platoon leader, and a brigade reconnaissance platoon leader in the 1st Cavalry Division. He then joined Special Forces and commanded a Green Beret A Team. He also served as the operations officer for the 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and with Western Command Special Operations in Hawaii. Later he taught at the Special Forces Qualification Course at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, the course designed to train new Green Berets. He also lived in Korea where he earned a Black Belt in Martial Arts and in Georgia where he earned a Masters Degree in Education from Austin Peay State University.

Bob draws on all of these experiences to write his novels and his nonfiction books, including WHO DARES WINS: Special Operations Tactics for Building Your Winning A-Team; The Novel Writer’s Toolkit: A Guide To Writing Great Fiction And Getting It Published; and as the primary contributor to The Writer’s Digest Writing Kit coming out in August 2007 and co-author of Hunting Al Qaeda.He speaks on these areas at writing conferences, workshops, and colleges. But his main focus remains his novels, which include the bestselling Area 51 books and collaborations with Jennifer Crusie. Out now are Lost Girls (under his pen name Robert Doherty) and Agnes And The Hitman, a romantic adventure written in collaboration with Jennifer Crusie for St. Martin’s Press. His books have hit the NY Times, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and numerous other bestseller lists.

For more information see www.bobmayer.org