Born in Germany and raised in southern Wisconsin, David Tindell embarked on a 20-year career in broadcasting before transitioning to the U.S. government and resuming the writing career he'd started in college at UW-Platteville. Today he lives up in the northwestern corner of the state, in a log home on a lake with his wife Sue, a Yorkie and a Siamese. After retiring from federal service, Tindell returned to radio and can be heard weekday mornings on www.wjmcradio.com. His study of the martial arts has already earned him black belts in taekwondo and Okinawan weaponry, and he hopes to add one soon in the Filipino stick-fighting art of arnis. And he somehow has time to write. With his globe-trotting wife, he travels the world, seeking out new adventures for his next novel.