Vince Nakovics retired from the US Navy as a Chief Petty Officer. His career was anything but conventional with a variety of positions from technician to manager, prison guard to investigator, trainer to head honcho, he's covered a lot of ground. He jokes about his technical career being in a time warp because it worked backwards, starting out on the most technically advanced equipment and working his way back to equipment used in the 1940s on board the USS Missouri. But it didn’t end there!
​​​​​​​Retiring he found himself reverse engineering the construction of Revolutionary War cannon carriages for Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, VA. He began blacksmithing in 1999 to produce 18th century reproduction parts. His blacksmithing group needed a newsletter editor. Over the course of almost seven years over 65 issues were published,  interviews of over 100 American and international blacksmiths were conducted for them and later books. Two interviews were selected for the Anvil’s Ring.
  After publishing his book on the cannon carriage work at Colonial National Historic Park he shifted his attention to  writing crime novels with a touch of international intrigue.