William Staub (Dusty) has been writing for more than thirty years and enjoys the cathartic release he gets from diving into a good story with a flawed hero. He retired from military service in the US Army in 1993 and took a job teaching high school in inner-city Baltimore, Maryland for the next thirteen years. Then he returned to the Army as a civilian employee and taught young soldiers for ten years. He gave the Army fifty years of his life and felt that it was time to leave the defense of our nation to the younger generation. William Staub has been happily married for the past forty-nine years to a true southern belle. He has four grown children and seven grandchildren. They live in a beautiful small home on a quiet waterfront in northeast Florida with their two boxers and four-wheel-drive Jeep.