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Topics

• National Missile Defense
• Military
• Homeland Security

Bio

Ed Mitchell is a former Airborne Infantry Ranger, rocket scientist, and management consultant, writing among the oaks in Monterey County, California, at least when the cat is not invading his lap.

Ed spent fourteen years crafting the Gold Lust series of contemporary thrillers. Gold Lust, the debut thriller of the series, was selected as the first “non-Steinbeck” novel accepted into the National Steinbeck Center Resource Library, followed by receiving regional recognition for Best Mystery Thriller and National recognition for Best New Fiction in the U.S. and Canada from a small press. Gold Raid, the stand-alone sequel to Gold Lust, won the Sacramento Publishers & Authors Association’s 10th annual fiction award for Best Action Book and the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Publishers Association fiction award for Best Thriller.

Ed’s stories about modern gold exploration, spy satellites, gene manipulation, hostile financial takeovers, and national security stem from the following life/career experiences:

• Latch-key child sent to juvenile hall; later a foster child on welfare, living on a dairy farm.
• West Point graduate, Army Airborne Ranger Infantryman; served overseas in Alaska and Korea.
• RAND Fellow at the RAND Corporation. The historical text he authored at RAND, on Army use of space systems, was later used as a resource text at the Army Command & General Staff College.
• Graduate from the Defense Department’s Program Management school; performed program management within the “Star Wars” program.
• Served in the U.S. Space Command as a space-ground combat analyst before and at the beginning of the 1991 war in Iraq.
• Aerospace Engineer/Consultant supporting development and launches of National Missile Defense interceptors, satellites, and targets; as well as evaluating Homeland Defense.
• Amateur prospector & member of the Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA).