Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL who led special operations teams as a team leader, platoon commander, troop commander, and task unit commander. Over his twenty years in Naval Special Warfare, he transitioned from an enlisted SEAL sniper to a junior officer leading assault and sniper teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, to a platoon commander practicing counterinsurgency in the southern Philippines, to commanding a special operations task unit in the most Iranian influenced section of southern Iraq throughout the tumultuous drawdown of US Forces. Jack retired from active duty in 2016 and lives with his wife and three children in Park City, Utah. He is the author of The Terminal List , True Believer , Savage Son , The Devil's Hand , In the Blood , Only the Dead , Red Sky Mourning , and Targeted: Beirut . His debut novel, The Terminal List , was adapted into the #1 Prime Video series starring Chris Pratt. He is also the host of the top-rated Danger Close podcast. Visit him at OfficialJackCarr.com and follow Jack on Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube @JackCarrUSA.

M.P. Woodward is the New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Ryan, Jr. series and The Handler CIA espionage series ( The Handler and Dead Drop ). He served as a US naval intelligence officer before going on to an international career in tech and streaming media. He lives in Redmond, Washington.