ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ron McManus is a multiple award-winning author of Libido’s Twist, The Drone Enigma, The Envelope, The Chameleon, and Assassin’s Mace. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he was also a Naval ROTC midshipman. Commissioned the same day he graduated from UNC, Ron served aboard the USS San Marcos (LSD-25) and is a Vietnam combat veteran, having volunteered for a yearlong in country assignment there. Following his military service, he became director of Program Integrity at the North Carolina Medical Peer Review Foundation in Raleigh, where he established the state’s first Medicaid fraud and abuse investigation unit.

Ron spent the majority of his professional career in research and development with a British pharmaceutical company, including an expatriate assignment in the United Kingdom. He retired as global vice president of R&D Quality and Compliance. After retirement, he studied creative writing and began attending writing conferences, while crafting a suspense and thriller novel like those he had long enjoyed reading. What began as a retirement goal to write a book, has turned into five books with multiple national and international writing awards.

Ron and his wife, Mildred, reside in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay.