Stephen Coonts is the author of a number of best-selling novels, including The Disciple, The Assassin, and the Deep Black and Saucers series, as well as a number of other works that have been translated and published all over the world. Combat, On Glorious Wings, Victory, and War in the Air are four anthologies he edited. He is a graduate of West Virginia University and the University of Colorado School of Law, as well as a former navy aviator and Vietnam combat veteran.