Collier Hageman, Todd to his friends, is from Ames, Iowa, and lived many years in Northern Virginia. He has been a father, a Marine, 1st Mate on a riverboat, personal trainer, an estate manager, private security specialist, a caver, a biker, humorist, voracious reader, author of "The Power Cycle" and "Heroes of Legend," and member of the Secret Handshake Club, because it works if you work it.