Leininger, Rob

Rob Leininger grew up in California before joining the navy. He served aboard heavy cruisers during the Vietnam War and also at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. He received a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Nevada and worked on Trident missiles for Hercules, and "black" defense projects for Northrop Corp. Leininger's novels "Black Sun" and "Killing Suki Flood" have been optioned for feature films by Warner Bros. Before deciding to write full time, Leininger taught high school math in Reno, Nevada, where he now lives.