//author bio//

C.L. Lucas has been serving in the military since 1987, entering the Navy immediately out of high school. He has participated in every major conflict since the end of the Cold War and flown multiple aircraft. In addition to completing flight school and extensive technical schools, Lucas received training at the US Navy's rigorous Survival-Evasion-Resistance-Escape-School (SERE), in San Diego, Ca.

Students at SERE receive two weeks of classroom instruction in land survival, evasion, code of conduct, POW organization, interrogation resistance and, escape techniques before being sent to the field for a week of ‘practical’ instruction in those skills, including capture and being subjected to 24 hours in a prisoner of war camp, where the students are treated as they would be should they be captured, to include mild forms of torture.

Throughout his military career, Lucas has attended several speaking engagements by former Prisoners of War (POW).

Lucas’s publishing credits include articles and essays published in periodicals: Defend America News, Navy Newsstand, The Flagship, Acadiana Lifestyles weekly, and newspapers: The Daily Mississippian, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island News and Batesville Daily Guard. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Mississippi, with minors in English, Spanish, and creative writing. Lucas served in the Navy for fourteen years, first as enlisted aircrew before attending college, then as a Naval Flight Officer. After serving out his Navy commitment, Lucas transferred to the U.S. Air Force to crew the B-52 Bomber. He is stationed at Barksdale, Air Force Base, near Shreveport, Louisiana, and was most recently deployed  to Diego Garcia, and flew combat missions over Afghanistan. 

(Now) Major Lucas was decorated for his efforts in an attack on Taliban forces in support of pinned down U.S. unit in the violent Helmed southern province. Forty-one of the enemy were confirmed killed, for the sad loss of one American, SSgt Chris Robinson, 36, Madison Mississippi.

Major Lucas is to be transferred in the Spring to command the 15^th OLB ASOS in Fort Benning, Georgia, deply to Iraq at an unspecified date in the Fall.  

This is his first novel.