<p>After graduating high school in Clovis, New Mexico, John Young joined the U.S. Army Security Agency in 1968 and served one tour in Vietnam.</p><p>Following his discharge in 1972, he attended the University of Arizona, where he majored in journalism and worked as a reporter for the <em>Arizona Daily Star</em>, during and after college.</p><p>In the 1980s, he was a writer for the U.S. Information Agency and a reporter for the Voice of America in Washington, D.C.  Later, he became a police officer and private investigator in New Mexico.  After the 9/11 attacks, he joined the FBI as a counter-terrorism analyst and worked at the National Counter Terrorism Center.</p><p> He subsequently moved over to the Defense Intelligence Agency and was trained in operations as a human intelligence collector. He served two tours in Iraq with the Joint Special Operations Command, working missions targeting Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.</p><p> After Iraq, John was an instructor for U.S. Army Intelligence at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona until he retired. His first novel, <em>Indian Country</em>, won an award in the Arizona Literary contest and was subsequently published by Ingram & Elliott. John has published two other novels about terrorism and crime: <em>The Nexus</em> and <em>Princess of Poland</em>.</p><p/>
