Growing up in St. Louis, Evan Willnow's interest in thriller fiction formed as a young adult after reading a sizable stack of Ian Fleming novels during an otherwise boring week of jury duty. For the past 20 years he has worked in advertising as an award-winning Photoshop artist, but his career has ranged to include bicycle mechanic, computer programmer, roadie, and cartoonist. He is a member of St. Louis Fencers Club. Mightier than the Sword, an action thriller of the digital age, is his first novel and is published by Legendary Planet.