The author isn't whom he seems to be. He is, in fact, a wholly other person who writes things like this book under the pen name of T. Edward Fox. He also writes under four other names including his own. He is a veteran of the Viet Nam War era, was awarded several commendations for excellence at performing his job, got out and took full advantage of the G.I. Bill for about a year before deciding he could make more money without a degree than with one. Working in the electronics and computer industry for a quarter century saw him at companies like Atari and Apple where he won an award for creating the first widely distributed and fully interactive training CD-ROMs allowing training for sales and support of all new Apple products of more than 20 individual products on a single CD. He is retired and doesn't quite make a living out of writing, but he has fun. Periodically he pulls out paper tubes and balsa wood sheets and make model rockets. At one point in his life he read 4-5 novels a week. Now, he writes them. Obviously, not that quickly, but 4 or more a year. He also is absolutely great at making things up. When he has a good target to deal with he can look them in the eye and tell them things they can't quite not believe. He did this with one person for over 25 years before the other one caught on. He could be a great salesman of things people don't actually need, but is too honest for that. Some of the above might actually be true.