David DeBatto is a former U.S. Army counterintelligence special agent and army instructor who served in Iraq in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. While there, he was a team leader of a tactical human intelligence team. He has written articles for "Vanity Fair," "Salon," "American Prospect," and "Spiegel Television" in Germany. Currently he is under contract to Warner Books for a four-book series of counterintelligence novels. He lives in Holiday, Florida.
