James Becker spent more than twenty years in the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. Throughout his career he has been involved in covert operations in many of the world's hot spots, including Yemen, Russia, and Northern Ireland. He is the author of The Lost Treasure of the Templars novels as well as the Chris Bronson novels. He also writes action-adventure novels under the name James Barrington and military history under the name Peter Smith in the U.K.