E.L. Speed is a freelance author who writes under several pen names. He served as a Navy lieutenant and flight officer. He flew more than two hundred combat missions in the famous combat aircraft, the F-4 Phantom II. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay area where he is an avid sailor and lover of fine California wines. Proxy War is his debut novel, and the first of several, including Phantom War, which is the sequel to Proxy War and Volume Two of the Phantom War Trilogy.