Jeff Wade is a grandmaster and instructor of Taekwondo and Aikido. He is the author of three novels, Drawer #7, Finding Nowhere, and The Good Father, as well as the short story Dread. He won the Crabb Writing Award at Belmont University in Nashville. With over three decades practicing and teaching martial arts, and an extensive background in firearms and gunsmithing, Wade’s writing depicts action scenes with uncanny authenticity. But his stories reach far deeper than that. He has also studied psychology, which he applies both on the mat and in his writing. His characters are loaded with quirks that breathe life into them. The scenarios in which they find themselves are not only challenging, but often heart-wrenching. While his themes tend to the dark side, they are gilded with light. The characters—and the reader—are posed tough questions. Perplexing scenarios. Moral dilemmas. All with a hint of dark humor.