Austin S. Camacho is the author of five detective novels in the Hannibal Jones series - Blood and Bone, Collateral Damage, The Troubleshooter, Damaged Goods, and Russian Roulette - plus two action adventure novels, The Payback Assignment and The Orion Assignment. Active in several writers’ organizations, Camacho is a past president of the Maryland Writers Association and current vice president of the Virginia Writers Club. He teaches writing at Anne Arundel Community College. A media relations specialist for the Defense Department, Camacho lives in Springfield, Virginia, with his lovely wife, Denise, and Princess the Wonder Cat.