Carl Addison Swanson is the award winning and best-selling author of 57 novels which include the Hush McCormick thrillers, Tug Christian mysteries, Fletcher legal sagas and five stand along books. 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.