Ron McManus debut work, Libido s Twist, won a Writer Digest award in genre fiction. He is a former naval officer, was the former global vice president of R&D quality and regulatory compliance for GlaxoSmithKline and lived and worked in London for several years. Prior to entering the pharmaceutical industry, he was Director of Program Integrity at the North Carolina Peer Review Foundation, where he established the state s first Medicaid fraud investigation unit.