Norman Philip Black served, as a U.S. Navy Journalist, in the western Pacific; reported for UPI and AP, in New York City, and for the Newark Evening and Sunday News, in New Jersey. He later worked in public relations, financial relations, and governmental relations, for major companies. His previous book, Ice, Fire, and Blood, is a military history novel about a period in the Korean War. Black has a diploma from the U.S. Navy's Journalist "A" School; a B.A. and M.S. in Education, from Wagner College; and an M.S. in Journalism, from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.